Do a simple test. If it's magnetic, it's fake. If it's not the above mentioned weight, it's fake. If it passes both test then you might want to...
hontonai, yes, it's definately "V" scales, it's the corrosion that pretty much ate most of the details of that coin. I actually found this coin...
I was doing a check of the Japanese copper coins that I had and found something very interesting. In general most of the die rotation of...
You can find a huge list here. This is compliation of various official homepage of various banks, mints, printing companies:...
This is not my coin but a guy on omnicoin called spica has this fantastic coin: [img]
It would have been worth more if you did't pull it out from it's original roll. Unfortunately it seems that you did?
Oh please, I was given the best time insult to eat my own shorts by the SGS seller while he was active here in this forum at one stage. I'm sure...
Open "File" > "Save as" > under format "JPG" It might be a die crack
Chances are that once it's mounted on a chain, no matter how hard one mounts it, unless it's mounted on a special way and is NEVER polished, it's...
Why counterfeit a medalion? Why counterfeit anything in the first place? Because people like you contribute to profit, regardless of it makes a...
It really depends though. If you are extremely lucky, you might be able to find something very rare. My recent find in a corroded Russian copper...
First thing, instead of saying that it looks similar to a silver coin, chances are that usually newcomers into this hobby believe that silver,...
Can I painfully kill you with some wish Russian coins that I could have dream getting and all these happened just about 4 years ago??? A 1839 1.5...
Not an error. Just different polishing of the die which appears to make it different.
I can't quite tell but it looks like a post mint damage - someone tired to saw it into half. Appearently it seems that there is a trend of sawing...
Does the competition explictly say that you MUST have coins for display? You can have images of it and perhaps print it out if costs of some coins...
You can try to increase the resolution of your scanner. Hopefully it can pick up more details.
Whoa pretty neat but wait a second. If I am not mistaken, is the solution used hydrogen peroxide? As well as, doesn't H2O2 like blow up at 70c or...
Wow is that star notes?
No, the banks are not THAT generous to provide you rolls of half dollars at face value. Instead, this is dependent on people who are unaware of...
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