Hey, wait... shouldn't a DB/SE dollar also have a lettered edge?
Looks like a genuine Chinese cash coin of around the 18th century to me. The two characters in your first image would be the name of the mint....
RUN AWAY!!! Edited to add: I'm not suggesting your junk silver guy is trying to rip you off. He may not know. Just beware, is all I'm sayin'....
If that's fake (and I highly suspect that it is) it's better than a lot of fake ones out there. I will say that there is NO way in Hades I would...
I can never see the mintmarks on those Sovereigns.
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The trade did not go through on this coin, so it's with me a little while longer while I consider other options. That's not a bad thing. For...
Yes, those are both S-166 cents with the telltale die break. Enough high grade examples have turned up here in coastal GA that I have a pet...
Interesting. Until now I did not know the Vichy state had struck coins for the colonies.
Cool. Looks like an 1820s-30s Coronet head. Any data on the shilling? My dig buddies find stuff like this occasionally. They hunt some...
I agree with what @physics-fan3.14 said. The example he posted has near perfect eye appeal. Yours is unfortunately a bit too harshly cleaned for...
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Yes. 1943 were made of steel and therefore magnetic. 1944 were not.
I like the current size of the small dollars OK but the British pound coins, despite being of a smaller diameter, have a nicer feel in hand...
These are lovely. I no longer have the picture of the on in my old collection.
Well, now, ain't that somethin'. Tony Fein sold one. I just learned something here. Cool. I'm always happy to file away one more odd piece...
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@daveydempsey - I've always loved that type, and some of the other German "oak tree" designs. That's a sweet looking example, too.
Whew! Germany I can do. I thought it was "Czech-mate" for me there! :P Germany (Hildesheim), 1687. [IMG]
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