Okay, just don't make fun of the pic. It's a sensitive issue for me...:sorry:
Yep. Pretty beat up. And probably worth nothing. Gwang Mu Year 2 (1898). And possibly fake. I know gxseries has had some say on these in the...
Whoa!
Yes, it seems that they used "medal alignment" for the commems and "coin alignment" for the circulating coins, following similar coin alignments...
Never seen this curious little Korean coin set before......
This is hard part of collecting these year sets: What to do when you need to part with them!? My opinion is that the best option (if money is...
Not an expert in these, but I think the Chinese characters say: "Gwang Mu Year 10" or in the Korean hangul alphabet, "광무 십년" (pronounced 'gwang...
Maybe not for circulation but just for "sales purposes," i.e., collector sets and gift sets? Sweden still has banknotes, from what I understand,...
In an interview from the 1990s, one of South Korea's main currency designers from the 1960s and 1970s said that coin production was wasteful and...
If you study heavily-circulated examples of this South Korean coin, you will begin to notice the overall wear patterns on the main device (Admiral...
Same thought when I first saw it.
I like the look of "striations" on coins (sometimes called "die finishing lines"). These are tiny, raised marks left on coins from coining dies...
Despite Egypt's support of the African National Congress at the time, Egypt and South Africa surprisingly had diplomatic legations in each other's...
I found them at this site, on this page: http://www.valleycoin.com/index.php?cPath=9_409_1482_1484
Don't know. Ask them...
I believe that they do sell the slipcovers, just like Dansco does for it's binders.
I never thought of "product limit" in that way before. Hmm. Makes sense, I suppose. Thanks!
CAPs Albums made a video to show off their system (below). The company's updated webpage now makes it a lot easier to create your own coin-page...
Very nice Lincoln! The answer is EF-45. A nice, solid 45 at that. If you sell it, don't let anybody talk you into taking 40 money for it!
South Korean One Won coin, 1969. Pay no attention to the little booger next to the crack... [ATTACH]
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