Some sort of novelty piece with a design that is found on Venezuelan coins.
Never thought of using it on silver, but I've had some success with lemon juice soaks for white spots on WWII era zinc coins
Modern replicas of Indian peace medals are often found being sold on a string of glass beads. It's supposed to make them seem more vintage and...
It's common practice to leave out some detail that separates genuine pieces from copies, for ethical and probably also legal purposes.
I think just about all of the odd denominations will have an equivalent to make them fit into the monetary system. Let's try... 4 3/4 stuivers or...
How about... 2/4 senal https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/mexico-spanish-colony-2-4-senal-km-64-1814-1821-cuid-1116150-duid-1416799
They probably just thought it was a regular Belgian 5 francs of the period
Yea, but the weirdly high prices in the low grade columns, which used to be blank, are uniquely NGC screwiness and not copied from Krause
Seems that NGC is about as on point with their stuff as Krause publications is lol
An interesting comment about this year/mint from the "Resplandores" reference on this series: "This is the worst year for planchet crudeness and...
That's a really nice cap n rays piece. Typical 1830's Zacatecas with weakly struck central features. This mint is probably the most common from...
@josemartins is right I believe. I'm not that familiar with communion tokens, but now that he mentioned it, this piece really does fit with that.
New pick-up. As some of you are aware, errors on Mexican coins from the second half of the 20th century are common. The ones from the first half...
Mark, it would be really helpful to know the diameter and weight. Pareidolia comes into play with crude stuff like this. Must take into...
My guess would be a thin saw blade and a lot of elbow grease :)
Half ounce of silver would be worth quite a bit to the peasantry at that time. Also, this coin would have come across as perfectly genuine until...
I was thinking it has a look vaguely reminiscent of small cash coins struck in Danish India. Also, it appears to have a motif with three small...
It's possible the date is 1544. At that time the numeral 5 could still have been represented in the medieval form, which looks like a modern 7.
Yes, but the point is that they can defend against their reselling the coin as proof of receipt by claiming they stole the photos and relisted it...
I think you're covered in the return case. Also, using pictures cropped from the original listing is a tactic to fall back on the lesser offense...
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