Design looks too simple - doesn't look right if it's supposed to be a "decent" currency back then.
British penny - you might have overpaid a bit as these are very common although I'm not too sure if that's a scarce year or not.
Bad time to buy Russian gold coins - at best you might be able to complete a set of Nicholai II gold coin set with the 7.5 and 15 rubles gold coin...
Australia has a significant amount of those kookaburras with privy marks - some of them are quite difficult to find such as this:...
Wowzer, still great to read such stories. Thanks for sharing. :)
The year 1912 may not really mean the year of when it was struck - it maybe to commemorate an event back then but I have no idea about US history.
Sounds like it's going to be another repeat of the 1980s coin market. Buy buy buy and then mass dump. Great for major investment companies as they...
There are just too much things to learn ;)
You should be glad that whoever did that only used "cheap silvery-like" metal coins. Wait till it hits gold or more expensive metals! lol
Hint - some are insane collectors that collect the packaging and the receipt. I know I do. And that's the reason why a similar question was asked. ;)
Clinker, I'm sure Zach can make the bison lose it's leg easily! :D Zach do you have a gallery of what you have engraved?
Here is an example sold on pandaamerica at the moment: http://www.pandaamerica.com/details.asp?item=4152&grp=1&categ=70
The fact still doesn't change - using brasso on coin and gently swip it is like using a drop of 10M of hydrochloric acid on your skin and gently...
What a pity, you shouldn't have cleaned it up with brasso. With that, any extra possible value is plummed down to almost slightly over face value....
PVC is only an issue when it starts breaking down and release it's nasty chlorine gas. You know what chlorine does to you if you swim in a...
I don't recommand it at all. Someone in another forum did an experiment with BU Washington dollars to see how long they would preserve but they...
Lucky 7s ;)
It just looks like a copper wash to me, i.e. minor copper "plating" which makes it look like copper which then was circulated. What would be...
It's still pretty bizarre. It's definately an edging error and this is not quite commonly seen, unlike modern error Malaysian error coins which...
China is pretty odd as there are some regions that still use notes for practically 1 cent or less. But appearently in major cities, that's not...
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