He'd definitely want the whole thing.
I'm all in favor of collecting for the fun of it. The problem is when you have to pay high prices for something you just want to have for fun....
I know exactly what you mean. My son often has the attitude like if he loses/breaks something we'll just get another one and I hate that. I was...
He's 9. We're trying to come up with a chore/allowance system but he also wants baseball cards and those aren't cheap anymore either. And I have...
He's already interested in coins so that's not the problem. The problem is he has expensive taste and no money.
My son keeps saying he really wants a proof set for 2026 because of the special coins for the 250th anniversary. I was looking at the mint's...
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The sneaky good coins there are the British Honduras, of which I see five or six maybe. Most people look right past them but everything from there...
Here's mine. As you say, it's not as well made as yours. [ATTACH]
Looks like you're right. So since it's the Japanese one, what do you call it as far as denomination? Is it still tong bao?
I did a Google image search and it says Kaiyuan Tongbao, but that doesn't seem to match visually. I found this eBay listing that looks like mine....
You'd like this one if you don't have it. [ATTACH]
Here's one that I have. Found it in a junk bin once. [ATTACH]
I have this coin but don't have a picture of it. https://en.numista.com/36029.
Yeah, I know a lot but I can't say I know the value of every date and mintmark from every series. Sometimes I get a pleasant surprise.
I collect foreign coins and sometimes I get one I can't easily identify. I've found that if you scan the coin, upload the picture to Google image...
When I go to my LCS I go through world coin bins and basically buy everything that looks promising and plan to look at it more closely later when...
I got this one last year. When I first picked it up I thought it was from Ireland until I did more research and found out it was Canadian. I like...
You can't have a cool hats discussion without including the Kaiser. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I see so many coins with holes when I'm looking through bins at my LCS and it always makes me so mad how many good coins are ruined. I guess I...
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