Thanks for all the thoughts. The problem I have found with most of the non-Ebay sites is they do not get the number of buyers and so things sell...
I tried listing the attached coin on Ebay UK today and ran into the US embargo on dealing with Cuban artefacts. I found this a bit unreasonable as...
Picked up these three as upgrades over the weekend: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I regularly use "Rubbing Alcohol" or, as we call it in the UK "Surgical Spirit" to clean excess grease and grime off coins. With a few drops of...
1853 Quarter Farthing - British but for Colonial use: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
... and just to sort out the monetary value for you, you have seven shillings and fourpence hapenny there, as it would have been said at the time,...
Very nice coins - but I think you had a typo here! Switzerland not Sweden... :)
Hey Ed - either you or one of your cats is shedding! :)
These two arrived today - I am a sucker for these George III colonial coppers! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1723 SSC "Real" British Crown: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I put some major investment (for me) into these two in the last week - the 1746 LIMA Crown is my first George II Old head Crown, and the 1663...
Thank you all for your assistance! So in summary, both coins are modern "Charm or fantasy" coins. The first is based on a mash up of Chinese coin...
A friend has asked me to find out more about these. I said I thought they are just tourist pieces but I thought I had better get confirmation as...
This is the best of mine: [ATTACH]
Coincidentally I picked up this one yesterday as an upgrade to my 1887 Young Head Threepence. The Jubilee head version is much more common and I...
OK - well HISP is definitely short for the Latin for Spain. It may well be for one of the Spanish colonies at that time - start with Mexico and if...
I don't think it is ancient enough for those guys! Pretty sure it is Spanish or their colonies and 18th century. This comes close to the match for...
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Ah - but, just because someone is asking crazy money for something, doesn't mean it is necessarily worth that much. I agree the deal was...
Another oddity from the recent auction. Appears to be a medallion celebrating the treaty between Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire - a...
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