I would love to buy some Chinese silver dollars but the prices are ridiculous. I think there are two reasons for this, First the market is flooded...
Not an expert on this coin but the fake Chinese silver coins i have all have that black crap on the edges, a side effect of the stuff they put all...
You Americans are so lucky, having a population that mainly doesn't care about world coins means you get great world silver for next to nothing....
Thanks for your insight! I figured it would be something politics related. Jiaxing seems to have been a bit of a political hotbed from which the...
No one has any info? can someone please point me to where i may find some help? cheers
Hey everyone, I have this 1907 10 cash coin reference Y#10 and it has the word Jiaxing (嘉興) stamped into the obverse. Does anyone know why it...
Thanks for the detailed advice.
Thanks for the welcome etc. The seller was selling it for $65, way under what a trade dollar is worth. They also have a fake Mexico 8 reales for...
Thanks everyone for your advice, i won't buy this coin!
Thats the kind of thing that makes me suspicious, the US mints by that stage were making high quality products and this looks kind of wonky. Also...
Hey everyone, I'm looking at buying this 1875 S Trade dollar and i need some advice. Does this coin look legitimate? It weighs 25.95g and is...
You can polish light scratches out of holders using polywatch, it works wonders on acrylic watch crystals and slabs are basically the same material.
Got this 1905 Japanese 1 Yen coin a few months ago. It has a few punchmarks on it, not sure what they are as two are hard to read and the third...
Interesting, thanks for the information.
To my laymans eye it looks ok, the text looks a bit squishy but i don't know if that's the design or not. I'd have to reference it with a verified...
How do you know something like this is genuine? I only started coin collecting this year and if someone were to hand that too me i would think it...
Unless there are pictures that i missed i doubt there even is an NGC label underneath the sticker. A cursory glance at a certain chinese retail...
I recently bought this 1910B UK Trade Dollar. I know it has been cleaned but i've always wanted one of these beauties and am super happy to...
How do we know this is an NGC endorsed product? Anyone can get a fake slab and foil NGC sticker from China. It doesn't have a NGC number, the font...
The character you mention is on the Y#138 that i linked in the op. Thanks so much for the posting those pages, i was looking for this book...
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