Actually, since savvy buyers base their final bid on the full amount they will pay, including premiums, the original post is correct in...
[img] It's pretty obviously an advertisment/cents off coupon like you can find in your daily newspaper this morning - just tricked up to look...
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Try your local public library, which will probably either have the SCWC, or can get if for you on inter-library loan.
Cropping your picture before you upload it will enlarge the coin image enough that we can actually see it without a microscope Ed. ;) BTW, [img]...
I can't help with the proof set question, but "key dates" are the dates for each particular series that are the most valuable - usually but not...
The "wide" refers to the space between the characters, not the characters themselves. The difference in spacing in these two photos is pretty...
Japan issued ¥500 coins to commemorate the opening of the Kansai International Airport near Osaka in 1994, and the Chubu Centrair International...
Never mind![img] [img] [img]Oh well, what's a little typo among friends? There is, after all, a difference between hCGs and hGCs. The only...
After a lengthy (.28 seconds ;) ) search on Google I found Hallmark Coin Grading Service, a Canadian company that sharted grading Commonwealth...
The smaller one is the normal 1mon size. The other one is much larger than the usual 4 mon size, which is the other standard, reinforcing my...
In the first place it's Japanese, not Chinese. The legend is correctly oriented in your picture, and reads (top to bottom, right to left)...
What they said, and double in spades! ;)
Hi mike, and [img] to Cointalk. I'm no expert, but it looks to me like you have a cutting error, not a printing error. Those can occur in...
The full range, depending on grade and mint mark, is a few cents to $2 or so.
[img] to Cointalk Simon. Y#85, a ¥100 cu-ni coin, had a mintage of 120-million to commemorate the Showa 50 (1975) International Ocean...
Not quite! Pre-Republic Chinese coins are dated by the Imperial reign, but commencing in 1912 the old mainland government, the Taiwan...
Why on earth would you want to damage the coin by filing the edge - no matter how carefully - when a popsicle stick and a pencil is all it takes...
>>Courtesy link<< Generally the Franklin Mint marks its medallions with an "FM", and I don't see one on the pictured sides of these pieces....
[img] Carl, or else you must be really, really, really old! :eek: You honestly want these young whipper-snappers to outdo you on a daily basis?...
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