The tipoff is "Confederatio Helvetica" which is the Latin name of the country. Presuambly they use Latin because with three official languages...
Take it to any jewelry store and ask them to weigh it. They will have a scale accurate to .1g or better. Steel cents weigh 2.70g. and planchet...
Chances are that any scrap dealer who knows the metallic content difference between 1940, 1943, 1980 and 1990 cents wouldn't consider buying them...
Usually by making a die and then placing the coin on a table or workbench, resting the die againt it, and then striking the die with a hammer....
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Neither ignorant buyers, nor auction fever, are limited to online auctions in general, or EBay in particular. I've seen the same thing happen...
Bone - you really should put the :p smiley in that kind of post. I'll buy the theory that an infinite number of monkeys playing with...
[img]Of course not.
[img] to CoinTalk. That '23 could be worth a few hundred dollars in lightly circulated condition. In VF condition - which is nice but not great -...
[img] I've bookmarked that site. :D
Betcha there's no useful response to this question either:
Precious metal weights are traditionally expressed in troy ounces, and the Red Book is no exception. Simply multiply the "net weight" of pure...
Absolutely not. The Red Book only lists Phillipine coins for the period under US administration, which are really US coinage. It does not list...
According to a friend in Greece, the obverse reads (phonetically) "KONSTANTINOS VASILEFS TON ELLINON 1966", and translates as "Constantine King of...
Eight to five, and half your money back if you lose, it wasn't there when the sheet came off the press. If there were alignment markers on the...
If it is a replica, its a pretty poor one. Among other things, the gold 8 escuudos (KM#437.1 and 437.2) were only minted from 1788-91 with the...
[img] to CoinTalk jrking. If it is about 20mm wide, just a bit smaller than a US nickle, you most likely have a copper-nickle Greek drachma,...
[img] to CoinTalk wayne. What you have is not a coin, but a token or medal of some kind. If it is precious metal, it is probably worth a very...
Okay guys - if you want to continue discussing how best to kill someone, do it in the General Discussion forum. This thread is closed.
[img] to CoinTalk eddie. Charlie32 is absolutely right, and that's just one more reason not to submit to lower tier companies. If you can't...
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