My Diccionario de la Real Academia Española defines a tomin as (1) one third of an adarme, weighing 0.596 grams, and (2) a silver coin used in...
My "Guide Book and Catalogue of British and Commonwealth Coins", published in Winnipeg in 1971 makes no mentions of Indian proof coins.
I don't like to grade from photos, so all I can say is it seems to be a good example of a standard 1940 1/4 anna, Bombay mint, one of 164,240,770...
PS While it is a very useful tool, especially in areas where I am not an expert, I have come across errors in Numista more than once.
Glen Murray, author of two well documented books on the mints of Segovia and Madrid (among other works) says without any hesitation that 1/2...
The "marco castellano" was the standard weight for gold and silver, equivalent to 230 grams. A mint or casa de moneda would be supplied with x...
For the record, JB on this 1759 half escudo refers to the two “ensayadores”, (assayers, mint-masters) J for Joseph Tramullas y Ferrer and B for...
Venus Cloacina reminds me of a piece of late 19th century doggerel, said to have been written on the door of a toilet in an Oxford college: Fair...
Looks genuine to me. My 2016 copy of Spinks lists the 1834 2/6d at £475 for EF.
Just a small point, the " Unready" in Aethelred's name does not mean that he wasn't ready. The anglo-saxon unraed means "badly advised", while his...
I am reminded of the epithet that Tacitus wrote to describe the emperor Galba in AD 68 : capaz imperii, nisi imperasset - roughly, "he would have...
The 1923 South African sovereign is a very hard date to find. My British Commonwealth Coins lists a mintage of only 719 coins
Excellent article! Just one minor criticism, it's populace, not populous
One shilling and sixpence, or 18 pence, produced by the Bank of England between 1812 an 1816. There are also 3 shilling bank tokens from the same...
Not mine, unfortunately, it belongs to a friend who asked for help in identifying it. A bronze As, weighing 17.1 gms, Kelse mint (an Iberian...
I know absolutely nothing about chopmarks, but this 8R looks genuine to me. The initials I. J are correct for this coin's date, they correspond to...
It is not an exact copy of the 1820 tyoe if George IV half crown. The most obvious difference occurs on the obverse. On the 2/6d coin the end of...
My Spinks English and UK Coins specifically warns that there are modern counterfeit George V wreath crowns dated 1927 and 1933
My book on British & Commonwealth coins makes no mention of a double strike on the 1943 silver (.800) threepenny bit
As from 1923, all S. African coins were produced in the Pretoria mint, which has also produced coins for the British Commonwealth (West Africa,...
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