Cheers Kid, I really don't no where to start when I get a coin like this that I've never even heard of. Do you know if they're still in mintage?...
I'm fairly ignorant and was totally oblivious to the fact that Chile exported anything other than very good wine. Kinda surprising to find a...
Summer of 69 wasn't about a year though, perhaps we should nervously skirt around this topic before it becomes inappropriate. I've got quite a few...
Nice reichsmark, I've never even heard of that design before - is it quite scarce? Greg
Hello Miller and welcome :D
Wow, is it peaty soil or something? I guess metal would resist the only major damage of peat which is usually squashing things, can't think of...
Nice. Was the Tippu Sultan the guy that gunned down in a sewer after the fall of Seringapatam?
My (14 year old :S) catalogue lists this as being worth £2 in EF and £5 in unc - probably give or take quite a bit due to the age of that book...
And then the empire stoleded it. Correct me if I'm wrong but the Portuguese not still have extensive trade routes / trading posts around the south...
Nice one, they've got a peculiar choice of lettering - looks like something from an old film imo. Nice though :)
What does a D underneath the date stand for? I'd assume Denver or Detroit (the only large american places with D that I know) but my knowledge on...
Imo the Irish chap who designed their representation in the dominant european currency must have been hungover. There are more things in the...
The bottom one looks like an early Louis 16th, before he looked like a big toad - if that's the case then it's between 1776 and 1792 ( I think,...
Cheers Mike, that actually looks pretty good in black - mine's a plain old 88 with most of the fine detail on Victoria worn off :(
I don't think I've got any coins of singapore per say, however i've got a few malaya/malaysia and straits settlement coins from back when my...
Do they still mint these in Austria? I think they're in a habit of minting the 1915 ducats as well - anyone know why they picked those dates?
Ah, the dreaded bullion thaler?
Is the source of the discolourment one of the odditties? There was a guy on ebay selling one that had passed through a dog's digestive system ...
They must have been dead chuffed with that exchange rate, I suppose the cattle raiding made up for it. Cheers for the info ;)
I've only got a godless and a double florin from victoria myself and I'm not too sure if they changed the size of the coin when they chucked out...
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