I've been collecting Brazilian reis coins for the last few months now. I didn't want to show them off yet though because I don't want to inspire...
A lot of coins sold on eBay are being sold by people who are not collectors. They might be people who have inherited them, people who buy at...
Wikipedia tells me that Ferdinand IV of Naples was also Ferdinand III of Sicily, so I'd say one or the other.
The Brazilian coins from the latter 19th century have a similar thing - on one side it lists the year it was authorized, and the other lists the...
A lot of eBay sellers do this too - they tape the bare coin to a piece of paper to ship it. It annoys me but I'm mostly buying lower quality coins...
It's often faked too, so that's another problem.
Yeah, I don't know who would be more inclined to buy something because the seller has a sob story, but maybe it's worth a shot. I find it annoying...
I find the date system very frustrating because I don't have anything to magnify it, so I can never figure out what year they are really from.
I wasn't bidding on it so I'm glad you are getting a chance if it's something you like. I've been trying to assemble a collection of French coins...
Thanks, Dave. That's really helpful. I'd say you're probably exactly right about it being a game piece. I'm glad I didn't decide to bid on this...
I saw this auction and I was wondering if this is really what this guy says it is. He says it is an ultra rare pattern trial. I can't read French,...
Here are some newer ones: A pound, 20 pence and 50 pence.
Here are the farthing, half penny and the three pence. The farthings are mostly pretty rare actually. I only have two.
I'm working on collecting the Irish coins now among my many interests. I like the design and the fact that they haven't been produced for that...
You could have started your own thread instead of hijacking mine, inheritcoins. Anyway, you can't just give a year, you need the country and the...
I don't blame Krause so much as I do Australia. Why can't they just put a letter like most other countries, not a series of dots? With the French...
OK, I see it now. Thanks. This is more complicated than it needs to be.
Krause lists different mintmarks for many Australian coins, but I can't find them anywhere. They all say KG, but that's not the mintmark. The WWII...
I've always loved history and was a history major in college. I see coins as a little tangible bit of history that I can own, and that's what...
I buy a lot of coins on ebay (usually at least one or two a day) and I'd estimate at least 1 in 40 or so never arrives or arrives with the item...
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