Oh yes it did - the rubbing put hairlines on the coins and destroyed whatever numismatic value they may have had. :( Nothing useful. Just leave...
An interesting find of coins from well before my period of primary interest. Thanks also for the link to the website for Asahi Shimbun, the...
Trying to catalog all the stuff I've accumulated in the last 40+ years, I discovered that I had a number of Ike dollars, and some questions have...
Another successful day at Coin Talk - something new has been learned.[img]
In the strict sense one would "forge", not "counterfeit" with real gold. Counterfeits, which are coins intended to circulate as money, would...
"Notgeld" is "emergency money", created for the same reasons as US Hard TimesTtokens, English Conder Tokens, etc.
Does it look like the one in >> this thread?<<
Here's a lightened version of a supposed one being sold on EBay. The seller's picture is a black blob. :( I guess they're talking about the "1",...
:thumb: :thumb: A surprisingly well struck coin for that era. Congratulations.:high5:
The correct weight of a trade dollar is 27.22 grams, and a yen is 26.9568. The weight difference is the difference between 416 grains (yen) and...
Either you or Krause are wrong again. As I posted, Krause clearly states that a letter "H" mint mark was used for Birmingham, on the 1985 Rupee...
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I suppose the "over the top" thing to do is ask the bank to let you put up a sign on the machine asking the person who didn't get credit for what...
Aidan, my primary source of information on Indian coins is Krause, which strongly disagrees with you. On page 1073 of the 2006 33rd Ed., it lists...
Two dark blobs that I can't manipulate into viewable images. The left picture may be an obverse with a bust, and the right picture may be a...
Japan, many Muslim countries, and others routinely produce actual monetary coins with no representation of people, but this is not one of those....
Baaaaaaaaad criteria!:eek: Some of those "shiny" ones are probably harshly cleaned, and thereby greatly devalued. :( Among the "crappy"...
According to Krause, a dot below the date is the mint mark for the Noida Mint, which is not listed as a source for the 1985 rupees. London, which...
You can buy the same thing every day on EBay for $10-50 or more.[img]
The best place to get answers about the specific listing fees, etc., is directly from the EBay website.
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