This is a rather unusual but very interesting thread. I had to think hard of what I had and found these two: [img] [img]
windchild - very rare. This antimony coin was issued by Kweichow Province and has nothing to do with Manchuria. Here's an example that was on ebay...
Inspired by a collector called Jim Rugh who collects coins and medals in various elements, I decided to give this set a go. This set would only...
I'm not quite concerned over the grade and wouldn't mind having coins in damaged condition as long as the price is right. But even so, some of...
Finally found this last coin that I took a while to find - 1933 5 fen. Unusually difficult to find for some reason - Manchukuo coins in general...
Thanks everyone for your kind comment. mlov43, to answer your question, grade isn't really a concern for me as long as the price is "reasonable"...
Just missing the 1990 M 10 kopek and 1991 no mintmark coins - these are tough. The toughest coins in this lot is 1965-1969. [img] Other...
jlblonde - you might want to grab whatever you can from the junk coin lot and see if you can make money out of them. There's one key date in the...
Manchukuo or better known as Manchuria was an area that was occupied by Japan during WWII. I found the 1943 1 fen to be unusually difficult to...
Finally completed the toughest 3 kopek set with these two coins. Only exception is the 1958 3 kopek, which is extremely hard to obtain / pricey....
Russian platinum coins have an interesting history. There's allegation that platinum coins were restruck during the early Soviet era which were...
It depends and obviously it depends what market you are talking about. From what I see, the gap between the rich and poor is widening and this...
If a Canadian penny is worth a dollar, I don't know how you are still receiving electricity to connect to the internet - thieves would have been...
Please let me know where you can buy such cleaned genuine platinum coins for 'not worth that much over melt' and I'll buy a hoard of them and turn...
Looks strange. The photos are not good enough for me to tell me anything. There are known counterfeits of this particular coin. I don't have...
Got some interesting coins from Chile. This is a few of them: Struck in medal alignment. All the other coins that I have are struck in coin...
I wasn't a big fan of pre-Meiji provincial coinage either hontonai until I saw a few examples while I was in the Daimaru department store in Tokyo...
Quite certain that these don't appear very often. First up is a square looking coin from Sendai Prefecture. Cast in iron - has an interesting...
This coin is slightly different from the normal fat man coin. If you note, there are two characters beside YSK. It reads "Gansu" which means the...
Not to break the bad news but don't you think the coin is harshly whizzed / cleaned???
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