I have dabbled in medieval hammered coins and also own a few shabby Roman coins. Recently, ancients have started to pull me in inexorably. I can't...
There were gold pound, and half pound, coins minted in the time of Elizabeth I (late 16th century). They are immensely beautiful things and...
At coin shows I sometimes see booths with jars overflowing with steel cents labeled "steel cents - 25 cents each." People hoarded this issue at...
Actually, it's the other way around: Kennedy did have a secretary named Lincoln (Evelyn Lincoln), bit Lincoln didn't have a secretary named...
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Augh! There is a show within driving distance!! Crew!! Lash me to the mast!!! Protect me from the harpies!!!!!
Very awesome! I love the depiction of the King's armored head! ...and who says Latin is a dead language? :D
One last thought, I swear this is the last one :rolleyes:, the airplane is probably just a play on the parlor's name, since the 747 is also known...
After thinking a little more, and this should have been obvious to me sooner, the katakana actually reads "Jumbo 7." The katakana alphabet is used...
Ah, sorry, I just noticed that you had already mentioned that above. I think that clinches it as a pachinko token for the parlor indicated. I'm...
Is the flip side of the token identical?
The characters are in katakana (one of the Japanese alphabets) and seem to read: シャンボセブン or roughly, "Shyanbosebun." When I look that up, I get a...
Yes, it is Japanese. I can't quite read some of the characters. I'll try again later.
I've never had anything valued at over $1,000 shipped without requiring a signature (unless I've explicitly told the shipper I didn't need it)....
This is true. Vcoins, though it does have US coins, contains mostly ancients and non-US coins. MA Shops, another massive online coin marketplace...
"The Complete Guide to Slab Varieties that You Should Care About. Really, you SHOULD care. Really! I mean it! You SHOULD care. Please? Won't you...
Whew... nothing in my area this week... that means I'll have plenty of money left for food...
I did not buy one. I considered it some months ago when they announced the series, but as time went on my interest waned and waned down into a...
Yes, that is classic ransom ware. The internet can be an agonizingly dangerous place these days. A few proactive things to do for others who have...
I sympathize. I can't focus for more than a week or so. All it takes is a trip to another coin show to send me spiraling off on some thing that...
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