The Peninsula Coin Club of Palo Alto, California salutes Barbie: [IMG] Peninsula Coin Club medal Barbie Hall of Fame Bronze, 38 mm, 21.14 gm...
[IMG] Mary Poppins will give the British response: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Semiquincentennial :)
My St. Patrick's Day Coinstar find: [IMG] It's from England! :)
One can really have fun identifying coins with Arabic writing. [IMG] Abbasid Caliphate Dinar, Harun al-Rashid, Baghdad, AH 186 (AD 802) Gold,...
[IMG] Samuel Bridge Medal awarded to Noble Hamilton in 1902 Silver, 34 mm, 20.21 gm Obverse: Samuel Bridge facing left, GIFT OF SAMUEL BRIDGE...
Here is a far-out explanation for the two sen coin: "The Two-Sen Copper Coin" is a Japanese mystery story written by Hirai Taro under the name...
[IMG] A scene from the 1967 television program "The Invaders" showing that even space aliens disguised as humans had to use pay telephones back...
The film "The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre" (1964) has a creepy old house haunted by 1964 United States coins including silver half dollars, quarters,...
Chickens lay eggs. :)
A local house is known as the "Chicken Ranch" as the owners keep a number of the birds. They have this little item on display, a bowl or cup with...
This coin was minted the year that the Disney film "Mary Poppins" was set in England. [IMG] Britain Sovereign 1910 - Edward VII One of the...
Fred C. Dobbs? :)
My Germany Prussia 1888 10 Mark Coin which I bought after reading about the 1946 Hesse Jewel Robbery. [IMG] Germany Prussia 10 Marks 1888-A...
This Philippines peso did honorable service in China: [IMG] US Phillipines peso 1903-S with chop marks :)
[IMG] Are you a Man or a Mouse? :)
[IMG] Britain shilling 1887 :)
A very interesting and well-struck coin! According to Richard Plant's book Arabic Coins and How to Read Them the reverse inscription translates...
My father was not a coin collector but he saved these sales tax tokens in the 1930's and put them in small containers which I still have. [IMG]...
When I was a kid silver dollars still circulated and someone told me that the 'S' mark meant that the coin was minted in San Francisco and the 'O'...
I managed to lose a GSA Carson City silver dollar which I bought during the sales of the early 1970's. I noticed the coin missing in the early...
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