Someone told me there is a nice one upstairs here...just say Jose sent you :)[ATTACH]
Have some fun, do some reading (Red Book of course for US issues), haunt CoinTalk, buy some cheap crap and see what grabs you.
If anyone on here does, PM me.
The hill on the right in the fake has a troll's face peeking out.:)
Could be early Turkish Ottoman. I have one that looks quite similar. 17% silver.
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But, but, but, they found it in Uncle Bob's attic and little Marcy started calling it Owlie before she had to go to the doctor and was...
It always frustrates me that there is nothing you can do to improve the appearance of these coins.
Yeah, it was at a swap meet and the dealer sold it to me at melt. After I got home and it clicked to a magnet I gave him a call and he said he...
dumb dumb dumb dumb :)
Wow, after all the nice things people said, I hate to reveal that it is a fake. It had me fooled until I got it home and it jumped to a magnet....
Feed your head?
A woodie occurs when the alloy making up the cent is improperly mixed. Modern cents have 100% Cu plating, so, no woodies possible.
The names are the same (unless you want to make one up) but the addresses are changed to protect the innocent.
I did some looking too and found little agreement. Consider "Gold Clad" usually represents a piece that is made from a bar of base metal that is...
The ancient guys usually run their own Secret Santa, but they might want to be in this one too. I'm way too intimidated to be in theirs, but I...
I know paper money from nothing. Noticed this though: [ATTACH] Would this be a birthday note? Looking on fee-bay, I see weird notes they say...
I would have thought that would have been the Constantines.
boredom
Don't sweat it, just go to the forums page and post a new thread about your coin. We all make mistekes here.
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