Nice coin! Hammered coins are almost always fantastic historically and numismatically. The mark above the pinnacle of the crown is the mint mark...
$140.00 for 2 ounces of fancy silver? Yikes. The US Mint is starting to learn from their marketing-savvy neighbors up north.
Below is the furthest that I go back with US coinage: 1794 - I have no Revolutionary or early Federal issues. Yet when this coin was struck,...
The closest I come to the ideal above is an NGC/CAC MS 67 FB 1942-D Mercury Dime, which happens to be one of my favorite designs as well. [IMG]...
Japan's commemoratives differ from US commemoratives in two very distinct ways: Japan seems to have the sense to not make too many commemoratives...
My cousin's wife actually drove the Wiener mobile for a while some years ago. She says it's always a conversation starter no matter where she is...
Like many people here, I also succumbed to the hoarder mentality. After a number of years of buying things that stimulated my brain's pleasure...
I am suspicious of manufactured collectables such as the "American Innovator" series. Others have already mentioned the "collector's malaise" that...
Waffling is very interesting, because it represents acceptable and collectable mutilation. It helps that the mint does the actual mutilation, of...
The obverse is almost identical to the image below. A marriage token looks like a good call, since Vcoins describes it as "France, Token, Royal,...
The online currency converters I just consulted all said 500¥ = $4.62 to $4.63. The most precise said 4.627092, which changed in the highest...
Oh my, I didn't scroll up enough... :yack:
I don't think anyone in their right mind would ever sell an actual "unsearched roll," much less dozens of them, unless they really didn't know...
I would love to return to a world run by cash. I miss it. But I think there are too many powerful and influential people pushing electric money...
So I find myself in San Francisco and I think "I should tour the San Franscico mint!" After all, within the past 5 years I've toured both the...
WoW! Absolutely amazing design! Who cares about the grade? Just joking - I'm in the XF - AU camp, but leaning more towards XF.
Bust halves are fantastic. They're thick, juicy, old and affordable. How can you lose? The OP's coin looks perfectly nice and provides a decent...
^What he said. :D
Yes, I can see it now, 昭和六年 or Showa 6, as already stated. One more thing, dates (and all text) on Japanese coins appeared from right to left...
The Beast Coins are fabulous. I wish I had them all in gold and silver (I only have 1 in silver). I have noticed a trend with series. Once the...
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