Wikipedia has an interesting article about platinum coins. According to their article, in the early Spanish American colonies cheap platinum was...
Broas Pie Baker [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Our Army [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
No expert here, but it sure looks like close AM to me.
West Germany, 1951 G 5 mark[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The short-lived Kingdom of Westphalia, 1810, under King Jerome Napoleon (Napoleon Bonepart's brother) (Die clashes on obverse, just to be a bit...
Looks to me (no expert) more like environmental staining than alloy problems.
Clearly machine doubling, which is also seen in the lettering in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and DOLLAR.
Reminds me of Revelation 10:2.
I know almost nothing about the current market for such things, but I do know that finding sequential star notes is not that rare, or at least was...
I always feel that I am ultimately a custodian for such history, not its owner with the right of destruction just to make me feel "awesome," no...
Montgomery, Alabama bus token, roughly the time Rosa Parks would have used one. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I don't know anything about this one from Lousiton Idaho, but I like it. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The Nic-a-date solution is best in my opinion. I think you could get a date from that one. The advantage over the vinegar solution is that it...
While it may very well be, I'm not 100% convinced it is pareidolia, but certainly neither is it from the mint that way. If someone were playing...
I've read there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand and those who don't. :)
I agree with SensiblSal66, except I think it may have been wet with some solvent stronger than sweat or water, although given enough time sweat...
As mentioned, silver, either as articles of use or bulk, served as a medium of exchange. Abraham purchased a field and cave to bury his wife,...
I didn't see where the OP said anything about a doubled die or added value, only doubling and a shattered die. I, too, find it interesting that...
I stopped buying proofs from the mint many years ago when they sent me a set with one of the coins smudged with dark grease of some sort. They...
I meant MY statement was tongue-in-cheek. Of course, perhaps the problem with Liberty on the coin was not mumps but having its tongue in its...
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