Well the best English language book I know is Hartill's "Cast Chinese Coinage". Frank Robinson or www.coincoin.com sells them. Those are also two...
Its a replica of a Ching Dynasty coin. Chinese coins are full of reproductions, even though the originals can be inexpensive. Its a tricky field....
Yeah, but I sure as heck like Fatima's sentiment of throwing a bunch of the regulators out. Madoff had whistleblowers showing detailed proof to...
I envy you. I remember my first red book......that poor thing had its binding shredded by the time I was done with it. Great first book for US...
Idk, I think I would accept a contemporary forgery, (especially considering the ethnicity of most Singaporeans), over an offmetal strike. To claim...
...and there lies the problem with price guides. How do you handle the variability? Every coin is unique, and every sale of every coin is unique....
Cool find. Depending on the value of the original, the copy may be worth as much or more simply for a circulating counterfeit collection.
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