My son keeps saying he really wants a proof set for 2026 because of the special coins for the 250th anniversary. I was looking at the mint's...
I did a Google image search and it says Kaiyuan Tongbao, but that doesn't seem to match visually. I found this eBay listing that looks like mine....
When I go to my LCS I go through world coin bins and basically buy everything that looks promising and plan to look at it more closely later when...
I picked these up yesterday at my LCS. I don't specifically collect tokens but if I see something neat or unusual I'll grab it. I haven't done...
I picked these up at my LCS yesterday. I don't know how much value is here but most of these are new types to me, and I'll always take early...
I picked these notgeld up at my LCS yesterday. They're nice coins, but beyond that it's interesting to see how inflation escalated as seen through...
With Greenland in the news lately it seems like a good time to show some coins from the island. I probably have more coins from here than most...
I've been trying to ID this coin which I thought was Japanese, but I couldn't find a match. I did a Google image search and the top match is a...
I was looking at some coins before taking my change to the bank and I noticed this one looked odd. Not being an expert or even novice in errors or...
Here's my last post of the night, all the stuff that doesn't fit into the other categories. 1680 Ireland half penny featuring King Charles II....
With silver at $50 an ounce I really try to only buy small silver coins but sometimes you see something that just doesn't come along too often and...
I used to mostly ignore tokens and medals but lately I've been paying more attention. There is some interesting and sometimes valuable stuff out...
I previewed this a bit on another thread, but I picked up a bunch of older Italian coins on my recent LCS visit, some of which seem pretty rare....
This shouldn't be this hard. The date 1791 is clear, but unfortunately the other side is worn away. I did a Google image search and I found a few...
I checked my usual sources for China, Japan and Korea and I don't see this in any of them. Either I overlooked it or it's older than what I...
I was going through some coins I purchased from junk bins recently and I came across this 1873 B Germany 1 pfennig. I know that 1873 in general is...
And now on to some new silver pickups. These are mostly smaller in size but I often find the most value there as people tend to focus on the...
Here are some interesting new copper and bronze coins/tokens that I added last week. 1744 Austrian Netherlands liard. I have this coin from the...
The kids are back in school, which means I can take a day off to go back to my LCS again. I had a good visit, picking up a lot of great stuff,...
I picked these two up this week at my LCS from their unsorted world coins. I had no idea what they were but they looked neat and that's the sort...
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