I dream about traveling and visiting coin shops. I collect world coins and I just know there are shops out there with great foreign coins that...
Thanks. Yeah, the German colony in China is not something you hear about and I only found out a few years ago. The Germans were late to the...
I wasn't there but I take days off of work to go coin shopping. It's the only way to do it if you have a job.
I collect everything but what gets me most excited is coins from unusual places. Bonus points if the area only ever made a few coins or didn't...
I agree about Belgium. I always found those hard to sell and I don't like most of their designs. Some of the 19th century coins have nice lions...
I don't avoid any countries but there are some like Israel that I don't like that much. The date being tough is part of it but I just don't care...
I've been hoping to get one of these for awhile and finally found the right one. 1909 5 cents from Kiau Chau, a brief-lived German colony in...
[ATTACH] Here's one I have. The beehive side is the same as yours but the other is different.
Krause says aluminum ones are 1943 and aluminum bronze 1945.
Well, 1) The Colombians at the time were the Spanish and 2) most if not all of the treasure would have come from outside of Colombia so it's not...
I've read about the treasure fleet of 1715 wreck. It's spread over miles all over the ocean. There's nothing historical to be gained by leaving it...
I got all of these in the past few weeks and just got around to getting pics. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
A few years ago I was at a coin shop that sells world coins by the pound. They let me look through them and cherrypick and then they'll sell them...
This lion says "good luck!"[ATTACH]
These are other significant coins I got today. They're not junk bin finds unfortunately. I really like the 1831 Baden kronenthaler, 1926 Greenland...
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