On a nice day I might get fifty cents for this: [IMG] :)
LM, Congratulations on your Islamic-Christian gold coin. In AD 1250 Pope Innocent IV (AD 1243-1254) ordered Crusaders to stop making gold coins...
I am fascinated by books written by long-ago explorers and I recently read the 1925 book My Life as an Explorer by Sven Hedin. Sven Hedin...
Possibly somebody at the mint made a mistake in the year. :)
I have never found a small dollar coin in a Coinstar or similar machine. :)
Great website! Like many people here I have a Stone Mountain half dollar. The section on production problems was most interesting. Possibly the...
The coin is ordinary. [IMG] The holder is not. :)
Imagine the history behind this coin. :)
Made by George Simcox in his brass foundry in Birmingham. :)
Re: The Mill Valley Masonic penny That token is a very rare one as Mill Valley in Marin County is a small town and consequently had a small...
Thank you for posting this. I remember sometime in the mid 1950's sending off 25 cents and some cereal box tops for a similar item but never...
This is an Egyptian Revival token similar to the "Egyptian Magic Coin" and probably inspired by the "King Tut" craze of the 1920's. This...
This story might be inspired by the "plague coins" story where a bunch of ancient coins are dug up from a plague gravesite. :)
Another wild turkey on a coin: The small country of Andorra issued this coin in 2002: [IMG] Andorra brass 5 cèntims 2002 Gall Fer or...
Emperor Charles V: [IMG] City of Besançon silver Carolus 1542 Silver, 19mm, 1.44gm Obverse: Crowned bust of Charles V facing left / CAROLVS V...
I received a 2018 Apostle Islands quarter yesterday. :)
400 Pages! [IMG] Order of DeMolay membership coin Bronze, 31mm, 12.40gm Obverse: Figure of Jacques De Molay facing and holding cross, no...
The book Into the Silence - The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis (published 2011) is about the three British...
Welcome. :)
Photobucket’s experiment with being a $399.99 premium service is over, and so too is the tenure of the CEO who led it. The Denver-based photo...
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