Impressive, I wish the coin was in better condition. It is not a double strike because with that much separation the fields of the coin would...
Does anyone know where I can find a Portugal 500 Escudo of the 1922 series, I think it is P51 (might be P91, I need to double check), with a...
It's North Wales not Anglesey, D&H 1. De Orc has the mintage engraver and manufacturer correct. (That mintage is for all four die varieties of...
Anyone have a link to the other thread? Interesting article. It doesn't match the reports in CW ad NN at the time of the sale. According to...
Can you say anodized? I've seen a lot of aluminum Mardi Gras tokens with this blue color. Anodizing is an electrically deposited oxide coating...
Canada, like several other countries, uses chromeplated dies to strike their circulation coins and the often come with mirror finishes. If the...
From 1794 to 1805 the dollar coin was undervalued and worth more as metal than as money. So they didn't circulate. 1805 to 1840 there were no...
They have encouraged them to swap over their machines for years and the operators haven't done so. It isn't like it is difficult to make the...
No, the CSA successfully seceded, but they went to war with what was left of the US and lost becoming an occupied territory. Then over time the...
The ASE proof is slightly overpriced ad so far elaine is the only peron who has come close o the proper reasonin. If you are going to compare...
Normally I am a "Coins are not a good investment" type of person, but I do find this coin investment club idea interesting. I do think that are a...
Yes they have to be intentional. As such I'd be willing to pay five dollars or so for one of them as a novelty. As a created fabrication it has...
Meeeandu, is this impression of the edge from looking at it in the case or have you removed the coins from the case?
May be a packing error, or it might be tampered with. If you got it directly from the mint yourself then it is apackaging error. But since the...
Death52502 Your post seems to imply that you also own a "white" 1959 cent that is strongly attracted to a magnet. Now 99.99% of all of the...
Actually it probably went through quite a few hands before it reached your pocket, it is just that no one else ever entered the note.
Another reason for holed coins is to make them obviously a different denomination for a largely illiterate population. Must be an OLD economics...
I wouldn't call them fakes because they really don't copy or pretend to be a specific issue, I would say they are modern fantacies with disigns...
The 32 edition lists the 5 centime with the 134 million mintage but it does list the i centime of 1981 with a mintage if 50,000
I like how they forgot that they DID publicly display them at a show shortly after they flew on the shuttle before they hid them away. (They also...
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