What got me started wondering about this coin is its thickness. It does seem that 1.55mm is a lot for such a tiny coin but that's the only...
I asked about this on CFe (eBay) but there's no general agreement. SO: Does anyone know if the 1853 three cent piece has been counterfeited? I...
WOW! I'm impressed. Congrats!
The copyright quote is correct. For people winning auctions and taking a copy of the photos and/or the printed page, I don't believe that would...
.I've always thought the meanings of intelligence and knowledge to be similar, unless I'm mistaken about that Knowledge is what one knows....
New dies showing India as an independent state (IND IMP was removed) were late in arriving to the Canadian Mint, therefore, in early 1948, pennies...
It may well be stamped...on THAT coin.Ive bought a couple dozen and only two (2) were actually stamped.
I'm not making much headway with this coin. Could be the lack of clarity of its inscriptions. The reverse seems to be Castille & Leon but I;ve no...
Thanks for the title. I'll have my (Prof. Dr.) wife see if she can get it through U. Ottawa's library. Wow! a $175 book and that's just the first...
You may be right about Nuremburg, I've found similar images for the one side that seem to connect there. It's the Hercule side I'm have no luck...
Have not been able to ID this. Anyone know what it is? [IMG] [IMG]
I don't know much about Fanums but I just had to have a couple when I saw them. The gold about 7.75mm x 1.20mm and weighs 0.36gm. The silver are...
The wire I put up are some of the last ones made from the time of Peter the Great. Here's another tiny coin at 10mm: [IMG] a 4 Reales from...
They may not be the smallest but I like these - just got 10 of them. Now, if only I could hold them well enough to study them! :) [IMG]
Seems to be a LOT of that going around right now. Not me. I've been outbid on every auction since the end of February. I've even bid all the way...
There seems to be developing a small group of guerrilla auctioneers. Their objective is to show, through their use in outrageous auctions,...
I collect fakes, as well. Two categories: A) contemporary counterfeits and modern ones that are WAY TOO GOOD. B) all the others, usually Chinese,...
Some I have That I like. Ohhh, that Eagle! http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r106/amenset/Coins/Mexican1b.jpg...
Don't worry too much about that because the commeratives were issued as standard dollars for the year. Before someone so kindly relieved me of the...
Coin storage? Easy . . . you know those single unmatched socks? Tin can. Back yard. Need I say more?? Seriously, I don't know but I have yet to...
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