Detectorists find them regularly in California. Those Chinese cash coins got around! I know of at least a few people finding them on the East...
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It was fun to see a @sakata thread resurrected. I too wish he'd come back. Anybody else working on an OFEC collection?
Every December at work (I work in a smallish boutique hotel), I give an inexpensive coin gift to all of my coworkers. One year it was Churchill...
I finished Indian cents and Peace dollars in albums, once. Maybe Franklins too- I forget. Can’t recall if I ever did Ikes. I think so. I did...
This. Not as much demand for an Indian error coin. Cool find, though.
That silver looks nice! Keep 'em beepin'!
My thought as well, though I suppose there's a chance it could be some other kind of planchet flaw? Laminations are certainly common enough on...
Not to me, but to each his own.
I agree, and it looks like a nice lustrous set.
Dan Carr could make a fortune.
Merged the two duplicate threads into one. The bill looks merely stained to me? I'd spend it.
Especially for the poor schmucks who had been bidding.
Indeed- and I’m not yet prepared to go through the looking glass…
Funny how nobody believed you at the time, and thought it was Photoshopped.
Whoa. British Trade dollars are extremely popular, and the prices on them skyrocketed when the Chinese collector market started heating up....
My paternal grandfather was some kind of civilian emissary to the British in India during the war. (He came away from it with a strong distaste...
VERY cool! I’m a WW2 history buff.
I like the CircCam contrast on that RE Bust half.
Yep. Bet on it. :yuck:
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