And the animal on the other side is a grizzly bear, the state animal of California and a symbol on the state flag.
KM#150, nickle plated copper, mintage 10,095,000, listed in the 2007 SCWC at $5.50 Unc, $6.50 BU. The 10,000 mintage proof version is listed at...
Here is a link to one of the many, many prior threads on this subject. To find more, use the "search" button at the top of the page and input...
The stylistic similarities suggest that both the Abe/Mary and Ike/Mamie medallions are part of the same series. With literally hundreds of...
With George VI in his grave for six years before the date on that "coin", what other explanation is there? [img] BTW, [img] to CoinTalk collector.
That's what I was going to say! :D
You might want to start out by reading this recent thread, and this one, both of which exhaustively discuss the subject. :)
[img] to CoinTalk Frank. I don't have the new 21st Century edition, but I doubt that the coins you are asking about are listed there, as Krause is...
Directly from the mint, from rolls purchased at their bank or from a dealer, or perhaps even from pocket change. With mintages in the millions,...
Perhaps where you live, but not in California since the late '70s or early '80s (I forget exactly when the inheritance tax was abolished)....
"Fire proof" = [img][img] "water proof" also = [img] Fire proof safes are designed to keep the interior temperature below 415 degrees F, the...
Don't forget bus and subway tokens, sales tax tokens and ration tokens (pressed cardboard red and Blue "points"). ;)
[img] to CoinTalk. True for collectors of US coins, but not so important when collecting the coinage of the hundreds of other issuers. :rolleyes:
[img] to CoinTalk DeNhk, and especially to the World & Ancient forum. :D Y#139 is cu-ni-zinc, valued in the 2007 Standard Catalog of World...
Actually, that's pretty close to the system used for most coins in the Japanese Numismatic Dealers Association annual catalogs. They are listed...
A bigger sucker than any who have looked at it so far! I really don't know whether to respond [img] or [img], or even [img]!
[img] to CoinTalk stitch. Please post pictures of both sides, so we can choose between two possibilities:It is a genuine printing error, where...
Plus Monaco (by arrangement with France), and San Marino and Vatican City (by arrangement with Italy).
Sorry, I can't think of a single reason to add any of those to my collection.[img]
[img] I guess they changed their minds sometime in the last few years. Tom Michael told me at the Long Beach show about 3 years ago that they...
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