Yeah just like there are only magma in Middle Earth.
[IMG] The Mint began to issue Ikstic variant of the Fyksian kron in 1968 following the Official Languages Act making the dialect a semi-official...
I've designed the following coins for my micronation Fyksland, just thought it would be of interest to some of you. The Fyksian kron (crown) is...
watch out for the 2003 cent. It has 4 varieties because it was issued during the transition period. there's plated and unplated (P and no P); new...
yeah i think the RCM has been over doing it lately. Not that i'm tired of collecting, it's just that the commemoratives will start losing their...
I don't know about the US, but Greyhound up here in Canada is pretty reliable for packages like the size of crates. Pick up at the bus station so...
This may not have anything to do with colonial New Brunswick but a certain Duke of Brunswick. This token is similar to other contemporary...
Actually "Sun Yat Sin" may reflect a reading closer to its Cantonese/Mandarin origin: syn yaat sin / sūn yìxiān. Also this is only one of Sun's...
Honestly i really don't know anything about Korean coins. I got the date and info from wikipedia and I can read Chinese characters, that's how I...
All coins with face value inscription issued by the RCM are legal tender including gold, silver and platinum coins. Whether anyone would accept...
The inscription seems to read: 大朝鮮 開國五百五年 in Hanja (chinese characters), which says "Great Joseon -- 505th years from (its) founding". This dates...
Chinatown-antiquer??? I wouldn't trust anything from CHINATOWN, not even over dimsums!
So currently they are issuing these as circulation coins? or as numismatic silver coins for collectors, like the Golden Eagle or the Maple Leaf?
My favourite ones so far are the huge 10$ bills i have in my collection. The least are the single-sided QEII Government notes. They look worse...
There is definitely a lot of years to post about the values. Try to get a hold of a copy of the Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins. It...
What do you think? That's the point of the story isn't it? Giving up your most prized possession. :) In this case, the devil will pursuade you to...
I tend to think this is of Chinese origin if authentic. The characters on the top picture read from right to left seems to be in archaic script...
Yes, you are preaching to the choir... The character used in HK, as well as Macau, coins is 圓 and interchangeable for the yuan (元 ) character in...
Usually the English and French inscriptions on common Canadian coins happen to be identical hence usually Canadian coins only have English/French...
Looks kinda freaky as it seems like someone was trying to make a sample of what a world currency might look like. Such world currency is...
Separate names with a comma.
