In Us they have always turned everything to big business, but the US Mint produces quite conservative stuff (and far less NCLTs) related to Perth...
I have noticed as a tourist abroad that shop keepers try to give all the odd or damaged coins and notes for me as a change. But they don't know...
At the moment something like 1900 coins and going down due to my NCLT sales. Majority of my coins are pulled from world coin lots so the average...
Nice find you have there! I think it's "Moneta Nova" (not "Nova Stockholm") which was common phrase on coins after major changes in monetary system.
We have one money exchange company here which takes bigger denomination coins and even most pre euros. As world coin collector it easy to take all...
Few years ago I bought every reasonably priced coin book I saw. Since then I have sold many of them and outsourced my library to public library....
I'm focused mainly into coins but have also accumulated 80 or so notes during the years. Majority of them are cheaper than sleeves but I like to...
Taxidermist and gxseries - thanks for your views. And Siberian Man - you have a nice set again! Soviet Russian period coins are quite scarce here...
I haven´t seen any "Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic" coins in looong time anywhere. Couple of weeks ago I saw 10 kopecks and 50...
We are rounded our sums since euro came because we don't use 1 and 2 cent coins here. There are some €0,99 prices here and if you pay with cash it...
Now when kids are growing and there's not much money to spend on coins, I changed my habit of collecting. At the moment I purchase only coins and...
As Jose mentioned those 1c and 2c coins - do people really like to use them or just throw them to jars etc. places? As you may know, we don't use...
I used to keep track of every coin while I was collecting Finnish coins by date in the mid of 90´s, but stopped when turned dark side. As most of...
Here in Finland and in my wallet most common "foreign" euros are: 1. Germany (weekly) 2. Spain (weekly) 3. France (a time or few in month) 4....
That´s true, but unfortunately the whole farmland has sold away about 40-50 years ago :confused:
I can´t be 100% sure, but there´s couple of Swedish ores from 1719 kept in family. Those are probably pulled from my ancestors farmland at least...
Would there be a good coin museum near you to ask for? At least here in Finland I have asked a couple of times of unknown old coins via email from...
That's so true, Estonia will be the next Belgium in Eurozone :(. But that's good that they'll introduce euro coinage next year. Nowadays coins are...
I have a little over 1,300 coins with different KM numbers. At first I collected by date but then turned to type collecting because I don´t want...
And unfortunately Chinese counterfeiters have also found Finnish coins recently. There are some examples of counterfeits (mostly from Ebay) from a...
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