Some coins, notably from Austria-Hungary and Latin America have employed denomination fractions such as 5/10ths or 2/4ths instead of 1/2. I've...
Anything below 65 would be a travesty, but I think it's a solid 66. Did the TPG attribute the holder as 1907? That would make it an error slab as...
Probably just your average variety transfer die. That explains the screwed up profile heights on the dime bust (look at Roosies nose and chin...
Reference for genuine examples: Malay Peninsula, Kelantan 10 kepings AH1321 (1904), tin When this denomination was issued, the coins contained a...
Looks like it may be a 5 over 4 overdate, at least it appears from the small photo that there is part of a 4 sticking out the right side of the 5.
It's a common variety. The valuable varieties are actually very rare to come by.
Your experience with eBay customer support (which I'm sure is about the same most of us have had as sellers) pretty much paints the entire...
Find a niche where you can buy coins to resell at a profit, and use the profit to buy coins you want to keep. Worked for me with my wife
Dangerous thinking right there dot dot dots added to notate that this is a snippet of a larger post.
Since this is an odd one, I'm not shy to add an odd interpretation - pixelated version of the internal female reproductive system. Some of the...
What does "original" even mean in this context. Engraved from genuine coins? Done long ago or recently? Actually hand made or copies?
I was just gonna say this sounds all too familiar. Was waiting for superman puppies motorboating the Rocky mountains or something
That's the other thing. Napoleon's rule ended in 1814. Yet this counterstamp of his effigy is on an 1817 dated coin
It's a gold sovereign. Could be one of the recent generation of Chinese counterfeits, they do gold as well. There is some loss of sharpness that...
Counterstamp appears modern :/...
It's the second A in GRATIA. On this coin is points between denitcles.
Nice one, so many of these are cleaned and/or banged up. Really a great example of the type and one that has clearly never been cleaned
The good thing about counterstamps is that the condition of the stamp matters much more than the condition of the host coin. The coin appears to...
Well that just sounds like a back-alley sort of deal then
I can't imagine an auction house would knowingly put their reputation on the line for what amounts to a drop in the bucket money-wise. The problem...
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