What is the purpose of the hole? Is it so someone can put the coins on a string to keep them together? Or is there another reason?
Thanks for the info. Very interesting.
Here's another one with bees - Italy 10 centesimi.
I wondered if they actually circulated. I noticed they are always in the same size and denomination as the Italian coins of the time, so I...
Bug, San Marino, 1974
1992 San Marino 20 lire celebrating the 500th anniversary of Columbus discovering the new world. Spanish flag.
1995 10 lire 2000 10 and 20 lire.
1994 20 lire 1995 1 and 2 lire
1994 2, 5 and 10 lire
1976 5 lire 1977 1 lire 1992 20 lire
Along with the Vatican, San Marino has some of the most consistently beautiful coins I've seen, most in a Renaissance style. Here are the ones I...
Do you know what the big copper looking coin is in the second picture? Most ancients I see are pretty small so that one interests me.
I just tested this and it doesn't work unfortunately.
Blaubart, you make good points in the last paragraph. EBay definitely wants to make you buy more, and they want to get sellers to pay for more...
I think a lot of problems I run into relate to the fact that coins are different from a lot of other things people buy and sell on eBay, so a lot...
Out of all my family and acquaintances, I know one other person who collects coins, so obviously the 150 million is unrealistic. Anyone who saves...
Djibouti, Liberia and St. Helena.
St. Helena and Ascension 1 penny.
Here's Malawi, Namibia and Sierra Leone.
Malawi and Rhodesia.
Separate names with a comma.