In case anybody is interested in cast/cash coins from SE Asia, I just put some Annamese coins on my Flickr site...
Originally Posted by GDJMSP Ideas on what - why the age of the dealers is changing or why you still have a hard time ? When cops, doctors, and...
Eccentric sounds better, yes. Reminds of the years when people used to call me a crazy (expletive deleted). Now that I am gray and wrinkled, the...
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It has been happening to me off and on for years, that people will want me to identify a coin for them and tell them what it is worth. Mostly...
Hmm, let me see. I am 74 years old, slender, have been remodeling and winterizing an old house for the past five years and also landscaping the...
I have a rather nice assortment of forgeries, most of which were probably made within the past ten years. And one old Kang Hsi coin with a...
Frank Robinson did the authentication on these coins, so I am more than willing to take his word.
An update on this: The coin with the BOW mint mark is a tourist fake. The BOR marked coin was actually made in Szechuan and is very collectible....
So far, I have found one off-center reverse from the Tang Dynasty and thirty six from the Northern Song Dynasty. The ones in my book range from...
Neat story, Chip. Are you planning a sequel?
That is a talent! I look first for Manchurian script on the reverse or for one of the cursive scripts on the obverse, which are usually Northern...
Listed as 995 in Hartill, I just noticed.... White must have an error in the date. Thanks for the IDs here. I still get easily confused (and...
Can anybody supply information ($$$) on a couple coins which I recently acquired? They are Ming Dynasty Jen Tsung 1425 AD, which is listed in...
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Re:Asian coins I have altered the description to include the countries whence the coins. Thanks for the reminder that not all Asian coins are...
I hope this is legal; somebody report me and have this deleted if it is not. Anyhow, I have put representative samples of my old Asian coins onto...
Qian Long AKA Chien Lung on most of them. Ya wanna few dozen more? I have a bunch on eBay for 25¢ each, but hope somebody bids them up a bit. But...
I do not buy anything from Russia, the Baltic countries, or China. "Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on me."......a lesson I...
I used to have a set of nine pennies (OOPS, I mean cents) with holes drilled in each and numbered 1 through 9. Can't imagine what they were used...
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