Here's one I didn't even know I had! [IMG] It was in a mint presentation box with the reverse up, and because it was 2002, it never occurred...
People apparently didn't use the Double Florins much. The ones I have are in pretty good shape with all the small details intact and no rim...
My Jubilee head Vickies are circulated so they get fondled a lot :D Most of the Lizzies are proofs so I don't get very intimate with them.
I have two of them and they both fail the ring test. :o
More "small" coins. I guess I'll have to have a small coin collection too. [IMG][IMG] [IMG][IMG] These are "Piedforts". I looked that up...
Tokelau
[IMG] The collection is supposed to be all silver, but I couldn't pass up that Sovereign and Fantasy Crown. Top row silver: Crown (5 shillings),...
Got these today. When GB switched from a large five pence coin to a small five pence coin in 1990, they made some silver proof sets of both...
While deciding what direction to go with this collection, I picked up some smaller silver proofs. That's when I still thought this would be a...
Pitcairn Islands Turks and Caicos Islands
I thought this was going to be a small collection... I decided to collect large silver coins (~1 oz) with Elizabeth wearing the The King George...
I don't know about other stackers, but I can explain very quickly what drives me to stack. When I look at the national debt clock, it scares the...
Here are some names for you... http://www.smartknowledgeu.com/blog/2013/04/why-the-western-banking-cartels-gold-and-silver-price-slam-will-backfire/
The nebulous "They" might be people like Warren Buffet (not necessarily meaning Buffet himself), who have the resources to move the market and...
Looks like the market manipulation is having the intended effect, namely scaring the uninformed out of the PM market. People are going wobbly in...
Since the coin is part of the Bermuda Shipwreck series (all triangular coins commemorating famous shipwrecks), I'm going with this explanation:...
Nobody heard me the first time...So I'd say yelling worked :D I think you are missing the point altogether. The point is that you are not...
leeuwendaalder This is my understanding: We got "dollar" indirectly from "taler." (originally "thaler"). The Dutch version of the taler,...
Supposedly there were only 105 minted. But the East India Company web site has a 2013, so maybe 105 per year minted?[IMG]
8 gm gold .9167 Obverse: QE II "1.05 pounds" Reverse has "East India Company" "One Guinea" What can anyone tell me about this coin?
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