Hi, and welcome to the forum. Try your public library for a copy of the Standard Catalog of World Coins. You need to consult two volumes - the...
Hi Bob, and welcome to the forum. What you have is a very common tourist souveneir, sold in "omiyagi-ya" ("sight-seeing gift shops") all over...
Hi concise, and welcome to the forum. In the future please post an inquiry in one, and only one sub-forum. The following is a reply I made to...
Do you update those every time a new edition of the Red Book comes out? :eek:
The "S" indicates it was minted in San Francisco, along with 99.7-million others. In circulated condition most are worth only bullion value to a...
screams out "I'm a token or medallion, honoring Mad King George, not a coin." :rolleyes:
Based on your description, you have a 19th Century coin, for which Aidan Work's attribution is completely correct. Specifically, it was minted of...
According to the 2006 Standard Catalog of World Coins it's 22.2g of .900 silver (ASW .6424 oz.) and 37mm in diameter. Mintage was 20,000 and...
You're right on both points. The Star of David/Seal of Sulayman does have six points. You obviously don't have any Moroccan coins older than the...
Welcome to the forum MJW. Afraid not. Even without Skylark's link, the legend tells us that it is a coin of Charles Albert, King of Sardinia,...
Not very likely. Speedy mentioned that it is still in the mint packaging, which would indicate "proof" if it applied. Also, there is...
KM#55, 23.3276g of .800 silver, mintage 7,296,832, centenary of Charlottetown, Quebec. Looks to me like you paid pretty much full value, as 2006...
Not necessarily true. What if you had collected nothing but circulated pre-Euro coins from Germany, Spain, Italy, etc., and didn't make a timely...
I'll bet you have several in your pocket at this very moment. ;) Take a close look at the reverse of a Lincoln Memorial cent. The statue of...
Hi sgnhntr and welcome to the forum. I'd be glad to look it up in the Standard Catalog of World Coins if I could see any details of the design or...
Looks VF to me. :cool:
To paraphrase an Amazon.com line, people who buy raw Trade Dollars (U.S., British, Japanese, or ???) on EBay also buy unicorn hides, toll bridges,...
Can you say EH SEE GEE :eek:
Or, maybe >> a shrunken genuine coin <<. :rolleyes: Scroll about half-way down the page to see shrunken Indian Head cents.
Which minted coins for the mother country, Hispana. :cool:
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