Russia has minted a coin about chess here: http://www.cbr.ru/eng/bank-notes_coins/Base_of_memorable_coins/coins.asp?cat_num=5110-0037 Gatzdon, I...
Doug, your link isn't working for reason. Here is another thread: http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=8032
Excel can be neat but without pictures, it's starting to get difficult to visualize what I had. I decided to wham everything I had into plain...
Forget that, it's not even MS-60 in the first place to begin with.
I'm sure it's a lot cheaper to buy Thai coins online. Thai coins fortunately aren't too expensive.
Easy, you just get a bunch of tourists travelling around and they accidently spend these coins. I find some Kiwi coins in circulation here from...
Looks like a Northern Sung Chinese coin. http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/roberts/coins/Chinese%20coins/index.html
It must be crime rate. You should try to go to a mad gold jewellery / bullion shop in Singapore. Last time I remember seeing, they had two full...
22 grams is way too under 27grams. If I am not wrong, such "coins" are magnetic and if they really do stick on a magnet, well there you go, struck...
Sorry but I'm quite persimisstic about it's authenticity. You might want to check the edge of that coin to see if it's a cast.
Looks more like Indian or Nepal temple token. It doesn't look like a coin to me.
You might want to post in coinpeople.com where that is most of the Russian numismatics chats going on at the moment. Russian coin values and...
You guys should keep on using the dollar coins lol
Here is the location of both the New and Old SF mint. If you are going there and take photographs, please post them in this forum. :D...
I doubt you get taxed unless you are trying to smuggle over 10,000 pounds or dollars worth through the airport customs (somewhere around there)....
I guess FedEx has a contract with the Mint so they know what's inside.
I'm curious jtphantom, what happens if you use other world coins. Have you tried it yet?
Could be just cleaned copper or plated. Can't quite tell yet. Request the seller for more photos or ask for the weight if possible.
Speaking of cuteness, I just got this coin: [img] I have no idea why the Czech bank had trouble selling this proof coin as well as the UNC. They...
You'll never know. This is one example that I really wanted to buy straight from the Japanese Mint. [img] When it was first released, it was...
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