In the case of Japan, at least, the domestic market seems to be pretty saturated with Tokyo Olympics 1000-yen coins, Meiji-era silver coins in...
Usually, sterling ware will have STERLING stamped on it somewhere. Anything by Wm. Rogers is silver plate.
I think this qualifies an an unusual coin-- bimetallic gold and platinum Library of Congress commemorative-- the only bimetallic coin the US has...
Having worked on mining proposals for various countries, I will say that none of the countries I have been involved with make separate treaties...
Those are 1-gram SILVER bars? They must be tiny.
According to Yeoman's Catalog of Modern World Coins, that particular piece was only minted in 1860. On edit: Apparently this was a one-year...
This is the best Walker I have, condition-wise:
Looks like it could be an 1860 10 centimes piece from Cambodia.
Nice haul from the junk bins! French 5-francs silver, a couple of silver Canadian dimes, nice US-Philippine 20 centavos, nice 1890 Japan 5...
Some medals are not meant to be worn. Your medal likely originally came in a case or box that was subsequently lost.
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Those countries usually don't enter into mining treaties, they enter into contracts. For example, a former Soviet republic which is seeking to...
What you have is a sterling silver medal, not a coin.
As someone with connections to the mining industry, I would say that those figures are probably stretched a bit. 300 million ounces of *available*...
I don't know where you get those figures, but silver production from mines has been trending up since 2002, and last year 735 million ounces were...
That '59 cameo dime is beautiful! :thumb:
Claudius and Augustus coins-- nice :)
Are you talking about gold? Pure gold shouldn't tarnish.
Here's another similarity-- at one time, French coins bore the inscription "Dieu protege la France"-- "God Protects France". The French version of...
The first three notes you have posted are extremely common, and in the condition they're in, they probably wouldn't sell for more than a dollar or...
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