The reason why it was heavily counterfeited was simply because of the excessively high face value compared to the amount of gold in the coin. It's...
Ardatirion - thanks for reminding me. I did forget E. Kann. I didn't get around to reading the whole book as I have that book buried somewhere at...
The first coin is a 5 yen coin. The obverse / reverse is the other way around. Alignment is medal alignment, not coin alignment like US coins....
Couple of counterfeit examples illustrated by NGC. https://www.ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?NewsletterNewsArticleID=2343...
I would have no problem buying problem coins if the price is right (or a bargain) and if it's something that's uncommon to rare. Sometimes you...
They are all Japanese. Note that the 500 yen coin is literally a 4-5 dollar coin (depending on exchange rate). It's a high face value coin.
Stalin rarely appeared on coins with the exception of the Czechoslovakian coin. The only example where Stalin did appear on Russian coin is the...
I'm not too sure if I'm happy to consider it as genuine. This is an example however is a rupee coin. [img] While they are different coin, if you...
These Soviet commemorative ruble coins are somewhat easy to find - prices however have been increasing over the past few years. When I first...
This is my specialty! You might want to check a type set album I created about 4 years ago. It's due for redesign and I've upgraded a few coins as...
I'm curious - how environmentally friendly is it to do urban mining when dealing with aqua regia? I cannot imagine that you can pour the waste...
If you are looking to sell them, you are posting in the wrong section. It is under Advertising > for sale
I remember the times when precious metals and oil were a bargain! On top of it, shipping prices were not as absurd as today.
Was checking out NGC site as they have some interesting articles on Chinese counterfeit coins. Had a look at US coins as well and I'll be honest -...
One common wrong terminology that I often see is overstrike which is used to describe overdate. Overdate is when an engraver changes the year of...
I do not collect US gold coins however, it really does not look gold to me. What is the weight of it?
Actually not true. This is under the violation of keyword spamming and can be reported. http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/policies.html
I guess with modern technology, anything can just happen if you have the right mindset and altitude. Personally within the next 10 - 20 years, I...
A product struck made with mule of counterfeit dies.
As promised, this is a Korean Dynasty type set. https://issuu.com/gxseries/docs/korea_dynasty_type_set_1888_1910 Not so many pages but this has...
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