It's an 1866 Chilean 20 centavos, 4.6g .900 silver, ASW .1331 oz., mintage 4,298,000 at Santiago (S over o mintmark, between "CHILE" and "CENT" on...
Philadelphia, which mint marked it's 1/10th ounce bullion pieces with Roman numeral dates (1986-91), but reverted to its historic routine of no...
It's some kind of fantasy imitation, possibly of a die. Are the design elements and lettering incuse (sunken) instead of raised? The bust is...
Before his death a few years ago, Mike Cummings (author of Modern Japanese Coinage), who had shops in Florida and Tokyo, used to attend in a joint...
So what's the error? They have publicly announced, as quoted in Coin World and other coin mags, that in addition to the usual two-step...
Of course the Mint can't "fleece" you if you don't run like a sheep to their shearing pen - the place they sell overpriced NCLT! As someone says...
No problem Jon, numismatic education is a major object of this forum, and you have now learned (by experience, the best teacher) just how...
The inscription on the right side of the second coin might be "Antonius" or something similar. [img]
In some environments cu-ni can develop a very dark tarnish, especially where it has been subjected to a great deal of heat. It's tough to tell...
eddiespin - If you are talking about some kind of searchable data base cataloging and/or classifying the various errors or psuedo errors found,...
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With your mysoginistic beliefs, exemplified by that remark, I strongly suggest that you take extra precautions about revealing your address to...
Good point - All three languages used on the coin are spoken in Switzerland as official languages.
Very interesting GX. Too bad you didn't have a little more time, but it sounds like you made good use of the time you had. :thumb:
Another way is to upload your picture to the CoinTalk Gallery, or any other website, and enclose the url in [img] codes in your post. The url...
He was a very active member whose last post more than two years ago announced his departure from the forum.
Collectors, or collector-wannabe ignorant TV watchers/suckers[img]
Is it packaged in such a way that it can be definitely identified as having been assembled with one wrong coin?
That's a real chuckle Tom. Have you thought of asking your wife to mend your pockets? [img]
As it should. With approximately half the copper component of a modern .750/.250 nickel, if anything it should be lighter in color, not darker.
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