I watched a video of how to remove a coin from a slab without damaging the coin. The guy used tile nippers and only cracked the lower right...
Welcome to Coin Talk !! No offense, but a round coin does not have corners. It is described as a Clock Face : Top center is 12:00, bottom...
Welcome to Coin Talk !! Melissa. Keep searching and sooner or later, you'll find one.
You should call this set "Early Commemoratives" or "First Commemoratives". Use the Ellis to start a second set called "Modern Commemoratives" or...
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Hey Hawkeye , Welcome to Coin Talk !!
Hey hoop, it didn't look harsh to me. Remember you prefaced it with " I'm not trying to be rude...", so I think that poster got your intent and is...
I think one of the reasons for the lack of interest in modern commemoratives is the enormous number being produced. When the market gets flooded...
As do we all....
S86, These Arabic numbers you and I are both posting date from 622 AD, when they first became the norm for Arabic numbers. Arabic.htm I have no...
On the top 2 , the writing may not even be Arabic anyway, and those 2 are certainly the oldest of the three. In India they use Hindi or Sanskrit,...
Here's some help : google search "how to read dates and denominations on Arabic coins" and you'll get a lot more....
What condition was it in? Hopefully good enough to keep ?
I can't grade it for you but I can tell you most of the things that are wrong with it so that when someone who can grade it for you, does so,...
The buyer came to his senses...just in the nick of time....probably asked to cancel the sale......probably expressing uncertainty about the...
I I I I LIKE it !!
I would say they look similar , but I would hesitate to say they are the same. I am not an expert on these old coins. Your coin is very worn,...
The one in the link is not yours, right? Where's the photo of yours?
Def looks like a Die Crack. Nice find.
At one time, the Spanish almost ruled the world. They searched, and found, gold and silver wherever it was to be found. They then started shipping...
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