Coins from defunct countries, obscure nations and colonies is one of my big interests in coins. Something about that moment in history locked in a...
The supermarket story reminds me of the story that when Khrushchev came to visit the U.S. in the late 1950s Eisenhower took him for a helicopter...
I'd like the Luxembourg note.
As Furryfrog said, most dealers treat world coins as "something for the kids" and will offer you a few dollars per pound or 25 cents for a handful...
Ebay collects and pays the taxes so you as the seller don't have to do anything, which is nice. You'll see that the seller paid the tax in the...
That's a really good score. Somebody screwed up there.
VOC is the Dutch abbreviation for the Dutch East India Company. It would be modern-day Indonesia and thereabouts.
This isn't an edge case though, if I understand what you mean by the term. This is eBay taxing an item that is tax exempt in the state in...
I've noticed NY and NJ have the highest taxes by far on coins of the ones I've sold.
Thailand 5 baht
I hope they straighten it out before I want to buy something.
As many of you know, a few months ago eBay started collecting sales taxes on all purchases, with the amount depending on your state's tax...
This is by far the biggest one I have. 3500 dobras from Sao Tome. It's 4 ounces of silver and 63 mm. [ATTACH]
I believe this is related to the Franco-Prussian War. As you can see, someone modified this French 10 centimes so that Napoleon III appears to be...
That's interesting. I wouldn't have thought of that. I know you and I live in the same general area and there's not a lot of good coin shops around.
Here's a French 5 franc note I found in a foreign currency bin. It seems to have been an American soldier's souvenir after landing at Omaha Beach...
Geez, the guy just wants to know what the coins are, not a tutorial for how to use the internet. It's not easy to research Asian coins if you...
I was going to ask you if you had this one. I figured you would.
No, it's kind of far from my house and I had already spent all the money I could at the time. In this hobby you can't have everything...
Your last two coins are from the Netherlands. And the unknown French coin is probably 1 franc.
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