This coin took me by surprise as I wasn't expecting anything like this. [img] From my understanding, this coin is struck in between 1820 -...
These are coins that I have been hunting for years and just could not get my hands on them. I finally got hold of them and here is the picture:...
Forgot that I bought the two key bi-metal Russian coins a while ago before the prices of them went out of control. Mintage of both of them are at...
I have been hiding away doing a lot of things and this is one of them - I have been cataloging what coins I have in my collection. This is a...
Not too sure if anyone collects pattern coins and I don't actively collect them. Turns out I bought a few along the way while I was hoarding all...
Yes, I know there's a lot of counterfeits when it comes to Chinese coins but this one is ok. It's a common 1 yuan coin with an interesting rotated...
I have been hunting for this coin for a while and it turns out to be a lot more difficult than you can imagine. This is the coin for discussion:...
This had me wondering. In many multilingual countries, there are good attempts to feature different languages on the same coin. I do not know...
I have been hunting these for years and managed to find them with pure dumb luck. Except they did go out of budget but I know very well that if I...
I'm been a freelance translator and I know that some termologies cannot be easily found in dictionaries unless you are both a numismatics and a...
This price got me shocked big time. It's a regular Japanese 1981 10 yen coin (worth around 10 US cents) but unless you are a serious collector, a...
Not too sure how practical these spoon coins are but they look pretty cool. Note that these coins are actually really really small - at around...
I've been collecting coins for probably close to two decades. They can be fun - handled all kinds of metals from base metal iron, copper, zinc, to...
This is interesting. These 1000 Swiss franc notes were stolen before they are completed. They could be missing serial numbers, security features...
I haven't been actively collecting banknotes but have a small stash of them hiding somewhere. I came across them recently as I have been cleaning...
Saw this for sale on ebay and kept an eye on it since I am curious what it would go for. Nearly flipped when I saw the final price....
I've been selling on ebay for years and haven't had much issues only until very very recently. I snapped as one buyer decided to open a case with...
I've bought this interesting token / coin and have to say I'm quite impressed over it. Something that's issued exactly 100 years ago yet it seems...
As mentioned a while ago, I have finally decided to get a bit serious and do a bit of work on presenting Soviet commemorative ruble. All of the...
Issued around 1660s to late 1680s, a set of coins from various provinces had mintmarks that were issued in both Chinese and Manchu scripts. A lot...
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