I've noticed that on the British pennies you mentioned and always wondered about it. thanks for the info.
The best thing to do in my opinion is find a dealer who has a bin of foreign coins where everything is 25 cents or thereabouts and just look...
Yes, most people who stay in the area are people who flew into O'Hare or who are in town for conventions like this. There are a few hotels just...
As someone said, Rosemont is not Chicago. It is probably at least 20 miles away and is a town mostly made up of hotels, restaurants and stores....
Interesting perspective. I've never been too interested in grading so I'd be happy with a VF for $20. It usually seems to me that for many world...
Thanks for the perspectives. I think what Medoraman says makes sense. A while back I was selling a coin collection for a family friend and so it...
I've seen those before, but as you said, it's a fantasy coin.
As someone who browses coin auctions a lot on eBay, I've noticed over time that certain sellers consistently sell their coins for many times what...
Can you tell me what this event is like? I live very close but have never attended. Do you know if there are world coin dealers there or is it...
I don't believe there are any coins with Hitler or Mussolini on them either. For whatever reason the dictators didn't put themselves on their...
This one brings me one step closer to completing my Irish collection. This has a low mintage of 64,000 and is quite hard to find. It's not in...
It looks like a soldering mark at the top to me. Maybe it's just the photo, but you can use melted metal to join two metal items together without...
Yours looks like it might have been removed from jewelry to me. I personally like New Zealand coins and I think it's a good area to collect.
I sell doubles that I get, so all of these I have similar or better versions of. I just save the photos after I list them and then it's easy to...
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You can't tell from the scan but this is a silver proof of a Portugal 100 escudos commemorating the discovery of the Canary Islands. Somehow I got...
Thanks. I've found silver Roosevelt dimes but this is the oldest non-wheat cent I've ever found in circulation.
Whenever I'm at the grocery store I always check the Coinstar reject bins because sometimes there are coins that people leave behind. Today I...
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