I agree with numismat. There is a huge flood of them that appeared in the market about 3 years ago. This unfortunately looks similar to many of...
Very nice! If I recall correctly, there was a set of such strike that was offered for auction. I just cannot remember what was the asking price as...
I highly welcome changes if there are better security involved. Taking for example with banknotes, Interpol recommends banknotes to be replaced...
I've seen this practice done with 'coins' from Russia and Australia. The most plausible answer that I had from a couple of sellers is that these...
I share everyone's opinion here. This is an excessive rare coin and unless this comes from a known collection, it is very unlikely that such coin...
Crooks try to get away by using the word 'novodel' which is NOT the right termology for it. A novodel is an official restrike by the mint which...
Within the last 10 years or so, essentially any Chinese or Russian coins including low grade coins, including junk coins were on the upward trend....
Hm, I thought I posted a reply but it disappeared on me. Here is an example that I took a while to remember. I thought I didn't have an example...
At this point, ebay doesn't care and the onus goes to the buyers if they have not done their research. Given that there is no 'copyright' claims...
This coin if genuine would be worth significantly more than bullion value. This is easily a coin that is worth more than 2000 dollars even in F...
For those who don't understand the implications of this - this coin, if it was indeed struck on such planchet could be quite interesting. mlov -...
Aluminum coins are somewhat unloved. I would like to post some photos but just can't figure out how to do on this tablet. There are a few things...
The most obvious sign is if you can read Chinese, it says five yuan on the reverse instead of one. There was never such coin struck.
One of those new generation counterfeits. This is not easy to tell. The only obvious sign is the surface. 1843 mw ruble is not too common as it...
Very interesting way to display coins. I like it! Innovative. I am personally a big fan of Dansco albums in particular the world albums but they...
Are they really the same coin? The details don't seem to check out. On the other hand, 1896 ruble coins are very common in VF condition. Unless...
Hi everyone, I have not been active in the forum for a while. There is a good reason - my laptop of 5 years have decided to 'die' and that caused...
I'm not convinced that it is genuine. Looks very similar to some of the recent counterfeits.
This is a rather tricky one. Because this is not an official product of the US mint, Hawaii mint is actually classified as a private mint....
Took me a while to remember it. http://www.ma-shops.com/frank/item.php5?id=6218&lang=en&curr=EUR
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