I have gone down the Siam (Thailand), Burma, and Brunei routes in past, and although I sometimes get the vague sensation of getting close, I have...
Hi All! I have had this lotus-shaped lead token or coin for years, and although it has always intrigued me / looked oddly familiar, it has been...
The way I got into it was that my mum was the manager of the advertising account for Air Canada in the 1980s-90s. One of the promos that her (she...
ENTRY POST / Cat. B - all the best!
Strictly speaking, neither are errors - the Brazilian coin displays die deterioration doubling, and the Belgian coin is an overdate. Both are...
looks to me to be damage, as if caused by a cheap eraser.
The 1896G is a lower mintage date in the series - I will have to disagree with the above, and say that 200k can be a low mintage date for some of...
From what I understand (and I am more than willing to be corrected should someone know otherwise), these were struck at Rome using a single set of...
Thank you for confirming what I had previously stated.
That is die deterioration, vvveeerrryyy common on more recent RM coins. Nothing special here, I am afraid.
My experience is that they all display these lines - I believe that the planchets were buffed pre-strike.
Stay away from it - details are off, rims dont look right, denticles are sloppy, wear is suspect, as is the patination. It is a fake. Also, how do...
My article is 'Chasing Joseph Moreau' in Occasional Numismatic Papers: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/613632
This is a pretty good site: https://www.coinsandcanada.com/ And of course, the NGC world coin price guide is basically just the Krause, so that...
It is also worth bearing in mind that your 1880s data probably refers to a Vereinsthaler, rather than the more popular (and heavy) Reichsthalers...
These are both wrong, in my opinion... the reeding on both looks wrong, and the devices on both are off. I think that the TPG made the right call...
It is wrong - lack of detail, and distorted devices. STAY AWAY.
Without seeing the coins you submitted, your post is pretty much meaningless. As was mentioned, fakes of Chinese provincials were produced...
Although the photos are poor, I would go for a planchet flaw - I have handled many similar, as the alloys were poorly mixed in this period. To...
The photos are too poor to say with any certainty, but it just looks semi-toned. If it is gold in hand, as Sal said, almost certainly plated as a...
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