Here's what it looks like to me, based on the photos: There are lots of little holes on the bust that make it look porous. They look to be...
I once saw an episode of The Wild, Wild West where Jim West and Artemus Gordon devise some sort of explosive device that looks like a silver...
Japanese coin album I've located a company that sells the Japanese type coin album. Apparently, the retail price is closer to $43.00 (not...
50 kilograms for 900$? It doesn't sound like you are in the US, where the weight would be listed in pounds. And 900$, with the dollar sign at the...
I think that "porosity" is cause for concern. I had a "Bust dollar" that was similar in appearance. The "porosity" turned out to be from casting....
If you can get the right coin grader on the right day, you can get an AU, or at least AU details, out of it. 30 is wayyyy too low.
According to legend, the "Indian" on the Indian Head Cent was the designer's very Caucasian daughter posing in an Indian headdress, in the late...
Here's a real 1791 8 escudos, minted in Colombia:
I had never really thought of it before, but after taking a *good* look at my Barber coins, it certainly appears that Liberty is a young man, and...
Thanks! You guys have made my day!
Thanks! Cool! I bought these coins from a Japanese dealer who had a bunch of 1900-O's that may have come from an original roll. They were...
I think the first one has a die chip on the S, but it doesn't show up so well in the scan. All 3 coins have die cracks that run across the word...
I've also got some old Whitman albums for Canadian coins, which I acquired in Bellingham, Washington (about 60 miles from Vancouver, Canada)
There are 3 coins showing varying states of die cracking. Here are the three obverses, in, hopefully, the same order that the reverses are shown:
The album I have was a gift. I'm thinking it would probably retail for around $20. I don't know if they are easy to find, although I could...
I really like your one centavo. Here is the only one centavo piece I have. I can't complain, because I found it in a grab bag of foreign coins I...
Thanks for your nice comment.
I've got a couple of Japanese coin albums. One is for date sets of all Japanese coins made from 1948 to 1979. The other is a type coin album of...
Interesting coin. The Chinese character used for "dollar" on this coin is the earlier form of the character that is used for "yen" on Japanese coins.
I recently purchased three 1900-O Morgan dollars that show a progression of die cracking on the reverse. In the first coin, the die cracks are...
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