Agreed.
Here are some neat animal coins I received over the past few days. 2015 Finland 5 euro with a beaver, 2009 Turkey 1 lirasi with turtle and...
Actually it's Danish West Indies, which makes it a lot more interesting than just Danish in my mind.
They're 5 pfennig coins which were made of zinc because of the war. That's why they turn black. They're perfectly legal to own and also very...
I'll give you partial credit.
I'm curious what kind of horses your uncle races? My family races harness horses, which are less common than thoroughbreds.
Here are some animal coins I picked up for my elephants and turtles collections. I really like the Hungarian 100 forint coin. And the Polish 2...
These two Belize coins have a mintage of only 920. I think it's pretty neat to have a coin that so few people own. Also this Portuguese 10 escudos...
Here's my new Anhalt-Bernberg 1 pfenning. [ATTACH]
Can you explain how you can tell? I'd like to get one of these someday and would like to be able to spot a fake.
Germany is a country I don't want to get too deep in because of all the variety. If I know I can never complete a set then that's something of a...
You're right that there are mixed feelings when you finish a series. I've now completed pre-decimal New Zealand, Irish 1928-2000 and Greek...
I have a lot of series I'm working on. I keep a list of what I have or need from the different countries I focus on and every once in awhile I...
Thanks. This one was hard to find. This is the first one I think I've seen for sale. I'm also working to upgrade a few of the coins in this series...
Finally I have the last piece for my New Zealand pre-decimal set. Though according to the customs form on the package from Australia, it is for...
And then you see random inexplicable deals. I bought an Italian coin with a book value of more than $20 for $5 recently and no one else bid on it.
Is it a token? Doesn't look like the usual penny/half penny.
Errors/varieties/die cracks. I don't like coins old enough to look crude, so probably sometime before the 1700s I'd cut myself off. I'm also not...
It's from China, but I can't tell you the denomination off the top of my head. But if you knew the year then you'd probably know the country too.
How do you know they are proofs? They don't look special to me.
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