Here is an East German Berlin mint error that I have been sitting on since my grade school days. It is a 5 pfennig 1950-A KM-2 that was struck on...
Not so long ago many casinos had slot machines that paid out with ten dollar silver center tokens with gold looking brass outer rings. Over the...
City of Osterwieck, Germany 1 Gold Mark Suede bank note dated 1923. This may have been a fund raiser because the note claims to be equal to 50...
German and other counties notgeld is a vast field. Is ebay the best place to sell a collection of Notgeld or are there dealers out there that our...
Non-Circulating “Legal Tender” (NCLT) is what collectors call coins produced in the name of various countries for the sole purpose of making money...
[ATTACH] German WWII Uncut Sheet of Food Ration Stamps dated for use during the period of Jan. 8th through Feb 4th of 1945. These stamps were...
Has any one ever heard of Mayan coins depicting pictograms and activities even including human sacrifice! I have a friend currently in Guatemala...
We live in an age when checks are being phased out. It wasn't that long ago when most people did not have checking accounts. If one needed to mail...
I have been collecting coins since the early 1960's. As such I noticed that coin books catalog coins by type and under those listings are the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Back in old England economist Sir Thomas Gresham 1519-1579 said that ‘Bad money drives out good money”. At that time nearly...
I just found out that Don Fisher formerly with Jess Peters Inc. has passed away in Palm Coast FL. His obit is on google. He was a collectors...
Not a coin but very interesting to say the least. I just ran across this [ATTACH] medal which is so brazen that I must assume it is satirical in...
Just read some where that Canada has demonetized their paper currency up to the 1000 dollar notes. Is this true? All their notes or just the...
[ATTACH] Have just got to see the Canadian 50$ gold maple leafs. These have very finely radiant fields which show up on my scans but one almost...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] When I started my current project of preparing a huge not geld collection for sale I figured that there would be some...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The history of modern American Numismatic starts with Crosby’s book on United States Coins in the 1870‘s....
Classic Scam ? I listed this[ATTACH] [ATTACH] old Chinese medal on eBay last week for 50.00. Two collectors got very excited. One offered me...
Medal or Token ? Medal or Token ? Is a question every collector eventually has to answer for themselves. Many times I have seen small sized...
Over the years I have seen more than a few coins converted into prize medals. What follows is my write up of the most spectacular one I have ever...
Sad News, I just found out that Karl Kohls, passed away last March in Las Vegas. Karl was the founder of the Shorewood Coin Shop. He was born and...
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