Hi, and welcome to the forum. Certified by whom? There are plenty of bottom feeders putting coins in slabs with "certifications" that aren't...
My established long time projects that most of you are familiar with: Modern Japanese (1870-on) Walking Liberty Half Dollars (full set)...
Spencer - have you been lying to us about your age? ;) Your analysis of collecting as a hobby, not an investment, sounds like it came from...
A pfennig is a German penny. Both the German Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic (West and East German, respectively) issued that...
Welcome to the forum Mulligan. An interesting question! If the weight and width were right for KM#32, I would be guessing at a "mule" mint...
What you need are the first three volumes of the Standard Catalog of World Coins, covering respectively the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth...
Well jimmy, I've got two reasons to steer you away from modern Japanese gold:It's either low mintage 19th century material, or recent...
Your remarks most assuredly didn't strike me as either patronizing or disrespectful, but then I don't have a chip on my shoulder about the...
Aha. I wasn't expecting the double mark, and just mistook the Gs for more design doodads. :o That's why I rated it VF details, even though IMHO...
[IMG] I certainly don't see any of the usual tell-tale signs of tampering, tooling, cleaning or brushing. :) So far as I know there is no...
Hi robbo and welcome to the forum. It's hard to be sure without seeing it, but your piece sounds like a "model coin" of Queen Victoria...
1 pfennig, copper, KM#10 in the 19th Century Standard Catalog of World Coins. Mintage for 1895 was 20,152,000 at Berlin (A), and nearly...
My last Hebrew class was almost 60 years ago, and I don't even remember the names of most of the letters. :eek: According to the chart in...
Welcome meijiyen. It's nice to have another forum member interested in my favorite currency/coinage. Please tell us a little about yourself in...
It's a simple fact of life that unless the vending machine industry demands dollar coins so they don't need the more expensive bill changers, we...
Very possibly an Islamic coin. [IMG]
I really don't want to seem like I'm picking on you, but if you are going to spend money on coins, I can guarantee that you are going to overpay...
"OM" is the mintmark for the Strassbourg Mint. According to the Standard Catalog of World Coins the copper 10 centesimi (KM#11.5) was minted...
An excellent example of why it is so important to post both sides of a coin if you want accurate identification. :D
There are many, many coins minted without dates, and many others are dated, but unless you are familiar with the script in which the date is...
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