Any coin with any wear is going to weigh less than 4.54g. There is no generic composition for brass. Some brasses weigh less than bronze and...
Yours is the common 1838 Belleville issue (Belleville is about 2/3 of the way between Toronto and Kinston) with the connected wreath. The 1837...
There are a number of different types of the Agriculture and Coomerce Lower Canada tokens. The 1837 Arnault and the 1838 Belleville issues (they...
What you have is a Canadian Colonial Token. Before Great Britain allowed Canada to mint their own coinage, the only coins that they had for...
As jester said, condition is everything. Likewise, it is a coin that has been heavily reproduced and copied/faked. If the coin is real, scrap...
Yes, check out www.Brooklyngallery.com They have always had all the holders I ever neded. Some may be in the closeout or slae section. You need...
The brass/bronze (what alloy) ones were given out to every elementary aged child in 1939 when the visit occurred. I know some guys that got them...
The Mint has a great sales program and a large ready inventory of most anything that you want. The only problem is "price" You can pick up...
With most TPG'ers you can't have a 64 that is brown .. red-brown maybe, but not brown. The retail in Trends for 60B (as high as a Brown coin gets...
Again, I think that investment in a good gold or precious metal mutual fund or directly into established gold mining stocks is the way to go....
You can't without some careful study. Look for "cast" small bubble marks. If it's a valuable coin, you can bet your last dollar that someone has...
In my opinion, it's gold stocks. They know supply and demand much earlier than people buying and selling and whether to open up mines or increase...
http://fortresscatalogue.com/index2.php?cat=1613PL01600&page=Coin_Details&details_menu=no&Submit2=More+about+1613PL01600 The denomination is...
I think that just 1% wuld be fine in my book. However, I can't believe that someone owns this and doesn't know what it is, not even what century...
1727 Venice gold Oselle: http://www.rhinocoins.com/ITALY/VENEZIA/OSV3.HTML
Latest "Trends" from Canadian Coin News: 1858 VF-20 = $135, XF-40 = $225 1891 Obv 3 SD/SL XF-40 = $200, AU-50 = $300
I agree with your grades, but even the top one might get XF, depending upon the TPG that you choose and the bottom one might get an AU. Both are...
The dot will be in relief (raised), similar to the rest of the design of the coin. There have been many many fakes produced of this coin because...
In the WE-12 that you mentioned above, the "WE" stands for Wellington and used by Charlton publishers, the class of Canadian Tokens that these are...
These, along with other types are sometimes called Wellington Tokens, are really categorized as "Penninsular Tokens". They really aren't Canadian...
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