Current Australian coinage all have animals on them except the 2 dollar coin. I can send them to you if interested.
I honestly have no idea about French coinage but I'll make a guess of what happened. Back in the early 1700s to 1800s, coins unlike now were...
I'll be honest - both of them look too modern to me and therefore fake. I'm sure GDJMSP will know something. Hope this isn't the case for you.
It may be spooned. Pictures do help. Welcome to cointalk by the way.
Maybe something like this? [img] Cricket legend Sir Donald Bradman That said, I just pulled one from circulation today. Not that easy to find...
It's not that difficult as I may think - people that have money and want a piece of "souvenir". From what I see, a distinctive point of change...
The gold chervonets was only struck in 1923 and restruck later in 1976-1982. There were none struck in 1924 and only 5 or so were struck in 1925...
In general, I believe that maybe the case kanga. That however depends on what country you are talking about. For instance, Japanese and Korean...
I don't have much to disagree on everyone's comments and hopefully this will not offend any newcomers. I believe in general most coin collecters...
Yes, in the early 1800s when counterfeiters used a metal that's about the same weight as gold - platinum. Counterfeited gold plated platinum coins...
Very interesting. Japan Mint rarely makes any errors but oxidization? Might be something to do when the mint was washing the planchet and it was...
jessash1976, 5 yen coins aren't rare or any sort but for some reason I didn't get much of them from change either while I was there. I'm sure...
It's a nice coin set - I own one myself. The weight of the silver coins aren't quite 1/2 oz and 1 ounce. They are .4924 and .9636oz each which...
I remember going through a fair bit of Japanese 5 yen coins while I was in Japan but never have I come across a hole like this: [img] Sure...
So I presume you have never heard of blood diamond and blood metal? It doesn't bloody matter what minerals they are - there have always been...
It is overstruck but sorry - not enough details to tell what it was originally.
Very nice, very nice. Here's some of the nicer examples that I own: [img] [img] [img] [img] This is a dual coinage struck for Russia and...
ScottM, the reason why overstrike occured was because of the devaluation of the copper value back then. Rather than melting down the copper coins...
Very nice and tough to find in UNC condition. Congradulations!
ScottM, as far as I can see, your coin looks to be an overstruck coin as well. The reason why I say this is because if you look at the bottom of...
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