This little item brings up images of times past in the Old South: [IMG] Louisiana Central Lumber 1925 Token Brass, 21 mm, 3.84 gm Obverse:...
[IMG] Egypt Cleopatra Silver Round Two Ounce Obverse: Cleopatra seated, Eye of Horus, Egyptian hieroglyphics Reverse: Pyramid, goddess Isis as...
The coin is Persia issued by Shah Naser al-Din Shah (1848-1896). The coin is either a 1/2 qiran (2.5 gm) or 1 qiran (5 gm) depending on weight....
Duct tape is very important. :)
I have one of these Korea 1/4 Yang coins which I found in a 1960's coin dealer's foreign coin box. [IMG] Korea 1/4 Yang 1898 (Year 2)...
Possibly somebody was testing their chop mark punch. :)
Many of the coins in the picture are in NGC grading slabs. :)
[IMG] United States Cent 2025 Privy mark on reverse upper left :)
This coin looks like the posted coin: Silver 2-ghani of Ala al-Din Mohamed (1296-1316), Delhi Sultanate, India (Tye 419.1) (The years are CE or AD...
I could not find anything about his story of the Antoninus Pius denarius found at Monticello. :)
My Centennial Year trade dollar: [IMG] United States Trade Dollar 1876-S Silver, 38.0 mm, 27.04 gm :)
One can head "North to Alaska". :)
Operation Washtub: How the Air Force and FBI Recruited Alaskans to Resist a Soviet Invasion From 1951 to 1959, the FBI and Air Force ran...
Monaco is a small principality located on the French Riviera and has been independent for a long time. It mints it's own coins, and by agreement...
POST MING DAMAGE Another fiendish plot by Ming the Merciless! :)
The 1954 British film "Fire Over Africa" is about glamorous woman secret agent Joanna Dane (Maureen O'Hara) who is assigned to identify the head...
From the LM Collection: [IMG] Faustina Junior Denarius - Ceres Silver, 18 mm, 2.33 gm, Catalog: RIC 669 Struck: AD 161-164 Rome Obverse: Faustina...
On July 20, 2024, I found an interesting book, Numismatic Rogues Gallery, on the Newman Numismatic Portal (NNP) which was about criminals...
[IMG] Elongated Cent - Monterey, California Coinstar find in 2018 The coin is recent zinc model as it weighs 2.5 grams and was probably sold at...
Two more Mauritius coins: I just had to get one of these: [IMG] Mauritius 10 Rupees 1971 - Independence and Dodo bird Copper-nickel, 35.0 mm,...
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