Try a Japanese 500yen which is almost a face value of 4-5USD depending on the exchange rate. Just last year, Japan got hit by a sting of...
Wait, are you sure they are rust, as in RED spots on silver coins?
The funny thing is, if you ever used soy sauce to "clean" copper coins, they do some interesting effects. Try it on some really cheap copper coins...
You can always send them to the metal refinery for bullions... :p
Of course it does clean coins. It's just acid. And if you aren't clean enough, please soak yourself in ketchup too!!! :D
I honestly think the printing bureau does take the value of US paper money very seriously. You must also not forget that the world isn't just US...
Errr... I'm sure you took it with your camera phone or something... is it not possible to take better pictures (or with a proper digital camera)?...
LOL Roy, yes I know. That's a big horrible mistake of not knowing what "gan" year is. Of course, not knowing when the first modern Japanese...
Feel free to ask any questions about Russian coins. I do have some if you checked out the link at my signature. :)
Those Russian bills are worth almost near zero. Or if you want to add all of the Russian bills up, I doubt if you can get a double digit...
The problem doesn't lie in higher prices for same coin but instead, the grading consistency. What is very worrying is how sometimes coins are...
I have at least 3 Soviet coin catalogue books even without Krause. Quite unlikely that all of them are wrong... :)
Yes, do keep it. A mintage of 2,400 isn't a lot and especially such ridicious low gold quality metal coin was only minted in the whole of...
Could be... didn't think of that... thanks! :)
[IMG] This is a Russian 1822 Silver 5 kopek coin. Nothing seems odd except that if you look carefully at the obverse's background, you can see...
I believe those are Indian temple token, except I am not too sure of the last one as well...
Darn, what am I supposed to do with my quarter filled set :( Looks like I better sell them off... :p
Difficult to say I guess. But I don't think the prices will come out very soon either for gold. Maybe silver prices will drop though. Firstly,...
Am I allowed to dream of getting a whole set of Imperial Russian commemorative coins and the ultra rare Konstantane ruble?
Maybe a check on Clark Smith's site will help: http://www.coinvault.com He deals with gold coins and they aren't really cheap!
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