A lot of eBay sellers do this too - they tape the bare coin to a piece of paper to ship it. It annoys me but I'm mostly buying lower quality coins...
It's often faked too, so that's another problem.
Yeah, I don't know who would be more inclined to buy something because the seller has a sob story, but maybe it's worth a shot. I find it annoying...
I find the date system very frustrating because I don't have anything to magnify it, so I can never figure out what year they are really from.
I wasn't bidding on it so I'm glad you are getting a chance if it's something you like. I've been trying to assemble a collection of French coins...
Thanks, Dave. That's really helpful. I'd say you're probably exactly right about it being a game piece. I'm glad I didn't decide to bid on this...
I saw this auction and I was wondering if this is really what this guy says it is. He says it is an ultra rare pattern trial. I can't read French,...
Here are some newer ones: A pound, 20 pence and 50 pence.
Here are the farthing, half penny and the three pence. The farthings are mostly pretty rare actually. I only have two.
I'm working on collecting the Irish coins now among my many interests. I like the design and the fact that they haven't been produced for that...
You could have started your own thread instead of hijacking mine, inheritcoins. Anyway, you can't just give a year, you need the country and the...
I don't blame Krause so much as I do Australia. Why can't they just put a letter like most other countries, not a series of dots? With the French...
OK, I see it now. Thanks. This is more complicated than it needs to be.
Krause lists different mintmarks for many Australian coins, but I can't find them anywhere. They all say KG, but that's not the mintmark. The WWII...
I've always loved history and was a history major in college. I see coins as a little tangible bit of history that I can own, and that's what...
I buy a lot of coins on ebay (usually at least one or two a day) and I'd estimate at least 1 in 40 or so never arrives or arrives with the item...
I saw this too. What I didn't understand was there seemed to be some dollars that were slabbed with grades in the 60s, and the dealer was...
Doesn't that apply more to proofs and other new coins? I'd think a coin from 93 years ago that has been in a value bin is probably immune from...
The British 2 shilling is not silver. British coins after 1946 are not silver, while those before generally are unless they're obviously...
My strategy when searching through world coin lots is to grab anything that is older, in great shape or that seems unusual. By unusual I mean it's...
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