Cotton banknotes are much easier to be counterfeited. Polymer banknotes are nearly indestructible (with the exception of heat) and they do last a...
I'm 99.999% certain that you have counterfeits. 1892 5 yang is quite scarce at the low mintage of under 20,000 and 1893 1 whan survival figure is...
From my understanding, the threat of counterfeit old 1 pound coin is too great to allow them to continue circulating. When you hear figures such...
Wow... Would have been nice to see what it was like.
I hate to be the sour lemon here as I know doing one album takes quite an effort. My first impression is that this was rushed - some coin position...
Sometimes you need to factor in that mint quality control was not there for some countries in more than a century ago
My understanding is that platinum and palladium have similar hardness therefore there should not be a drama when striking palladium. Especially...
I see this kind of damage often with worn aluminum coins. I suspect it has been exposed to heat damage and thus parts of it bulged out.
Fantasy, not genuine.
Mints in that past that attempted to market palladium coins have always gone through a curse. If you look at the history of Canadian, Chinese,...
As in the topic, I am looking for a Hong Kong 1866 or 1867 half dollar. I'm not looking to spend a fortune on it so low grade, damaged or even...
Oh what a shame! Should have 200 dollars lying around - I think that was sold at a steal to be honest.
Early proof pre-decimal Australian coins are quite SCARCE. Please do post a photo! Look at this example...
Was tidying up my collection and this is one set that I got a few years back. I did show it once before but wanted to do a formal digital coin...
I'd like to see your junk coin box! At one stage, even copper coins were removed from some of my coin dealer boxes when copper prices were high....
Sometimes some of the best high quality coins can be found overseas as business men or missionaries brought back banknotes and coins. This would...
Russia would have been a favorite choice but I think we have too many Russian coins featured. Time to go to Kyrgyzstan! (Had to look the...
Let's head up north to Uzbekistan [IMG] This has been quite interesting. I had to look up Google Maps to make sure I'm not guessing. A neat way...
Uganda is next to Rwanda [img]
Cuba to Haiti [img]
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