Has any one ever heard of Mayan coins depicting pictograms and activities even including human sacrifice! I have a friend currently in Guatemala...
Love at first sight!!
Genuine reproduction and honestly marked as such. There were lots of different types like these struck all over Germany for fund raising causes....
I have seen one of these cut in half. The core looks like brass or copper and the out side layer is silver layer too thick to be just plated.
The Madonna thalers were thought to bring good luck and those that couldn't afford a genuine silver coin bought copper copies and holed them as...
I would say EF due to the wear on most of the high points of the design; but when I look at the edge rims I don't see any wear on the razor thin...
Thanks Paddy there is a good selection of these on ebay!
We live in an age when checks are being phased out. It wasn't that long ago when most people did not have checking accounts. If one needed to mail...
Dajo, do you know anything about these C/M's I have seen them years ago on other non-Danzig Prussian thaler coins and they were thought to be...
Danzig issued some zinc notgeld coins in 1920 and lots of coins in the 16th through 19th centuries.
Gave this a 10 for both it's historical tradition of armed neutrality and the coin's eye appeal.
Back when I was doing new issues for SCWC we continued using Y numbers for China due to our agreement with Whitman publishing who owned the rights...
I have been collecting coins since the early 1960's. As such I noticed that coin books catalog coins by type and under those listings are the...
"Wacht am Rhine" Watching the Rhine river which runs between Germany and Germany's traditional enemy France. Early aluminum does not weather well...
This is a shooting fest medal from Duesseldorf. The Wacht ...design is a stock design used on many different medals and refers to France.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Back in old England economist Sir Thomas Gresham 1519-1579 said that ‘Bad money drives out good money”. At that time nearly...
There was an FM Collectibles book published by Krause Pubs. back in the day. It was written by FM so the mintage figures though incomplete are...
Franklin Mint also produced some very nice casino tokens in the mid to late 1960's. They made lots of proofs for collectors most of which are...
Too nice to be just bullion. Slab it?
That sounds very true when thinking about the futures market where investors can buy and sell gold that often exists only on paper. That is where...
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