My son keeps saying he really wants a proof set for 2026 because of the special coins for the 250th anniversary. I was looking at the mint's...
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The sneaky good coins there are the British Honduras, of which I see five or six maybe. Most people look right past them but everything from there...
Here's mine. As you say, it's not as well made as yours. [ATTACH]
Looks like you're right. So since it's the Japanese one, what do you call it as far as denomination? Is it still tong bao?
I did a Google image search and it says Kaiyuan Tongbao, but that doesn't seem to match visually. I found this eBay listing that looks like mine....
You'd like this one if you don't have it. [ATTACH]
Here's one that I have. Found it in a junk bin once. [ATTACH]
I have this coin but don't have a picture of it. https://en.numista.com/36029.
Yeah, I know a lot but I can't say I know the value of every date and mintmark from every series. Sometimes I get a pleasant surprise.
I collect foreign coins and sometimes I get one I can't easily identify. I've found that if you scan the coin, upload the picture to Google image...
When I go to my LCS I go through world coin bins and basically buy everything that looks promising and plan to look at it more closely later when...
I got this one last year. When I first picked it up I thought it was from Ireland until I did more research and found out it was Canadian. I like...
You can't have a cool hats discussion without including the Kaiser. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I see so many coins with holes when I'm looking through bins at my LCS and it always makes me so mad how many good coins are ruined. I guess I...
I also see mine says July 20 and yours doesn't have the 20. I did a little research online. It seems there were some in different metals too. I'm...
I still don't see it. What word am I looking at?
I picked these up yesterday at my LCS. I don't specifically collect tokens but if I see something neat or unusual I'll grab it. I haven't done...
I picked these up at my LCS yesterday. I don't know how much value is here but most of these are new types to me, and I'll always take early...
I picked these notgeld up at my LCS yesterday. They're nice coins, but beyond that it's interesting to see how inflation escalated as seen through...
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