Actually, they don't. Costa Rica still uses the Corona. Big coins, too.
Getting rid of the one is the only way to get the dollar coin to work. We need wholesale "loose change" reform.
Okay, as Germany, start with 1950, there were only three Germanies back then (Saarland, East Germany and West Germany), or better yet, start with...
the nat park bill passed the house a few weeks ago, and there are six more state quarters for the territories and DC next year. If the senate...
As this is the last year of the Lincoln memorial cent series, and it's "only" been going on for fifty years, I figure that it might be fun to get...
The Peace Dollar is excellent. So is the Kennedy Half. Had the feminists not ruined everything by insisting Susan B. Anthony's face be put on the...
She won the Nobel Peace prize for suggesting that there be a Nobel Peace Prize. Quaint, but does she deserve to be on the money. Her being such a...
1999: Several countries begin minting standardized euro coins. After three years of stockpiling them, fifteen "countries" issued fifteen designs....
Wait 'till next year. Eight pennies, twelve quarters and ten dollars. I remember that in 1982, there were no mint sets sold at all because there...
yeah.
Does anyone know where to get the Dansco Territorial quarter supplement?
Okay, I was in Iran the other month and I was looking at a catalogue of Parthian coinage. One thing I discovered is that there were at least three...
People spend state quarters.They will spend the territorials and nat park ones. How many post-2003 nickels have you seen recently?
while we're here, here are the territorial quarter designs;...
nope. I've never been able to figure out how to do that.
That's because they're cancelled, Uncancelled stamps are worth quite a bit of money.
It's a 1946 Flemish 2 franc steel piece. I found it many years ago in a pick-it box in a coin shop in Brussels many years ago. This is a rare coin...
Which brings us to an interesting question: When was the last year that a mint failed to produce an entire complement of denominations?
If you're lazy, you can get them from mint sets. getting them from circulation is much more fun and interesting. (I do both)
The "Post Bismark Unification" issues are the Second Reich. Sort of like state Quarters, only much more expensive. The Kings and grand dukes were...
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