So, would about any larger medal count as a so-called dollar? Would this include 1 ounce silver rounds?
I'm not impressed by the reverse. It's too "busy" for a small coin, and the eagle looks a little like a vulture and carries only arrows for war...
A nice coin, and I'd hold on to it, but I wouldn't think it had more than a few cents of extra value at most. Someone needing to fill a spot in...
Not a chemist, but I suspect it is toning of some kind, and whether it showed that badly or not when originally graded, many graders would not let...
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There was a good bit of paper money issued with pictures of living persons, including Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, on the...
Clock face terms are more precise, but normally I see coins described from the viewer's point of view, so that "head left" means the head of...
Thanks for the very nice write-up and for showing the neat coins. It looks to me the coin spells his name ATALARICUS rather than ATALRICUS. I...
I don't think it's a problem with cutting. The back is well centered, the front is not, so I would think it is an alignment issue. But as...
I wonder if one of those gizmos that measures the metal content of the surface would provide some clues.
It reminds me of the pattern made by frost on a windowpane. It looks like the metal itself has crystalized, although it could be something on the...
Welcome to Coin Talk! By the way, not that it really matters a lot for a circulated modern copper-nickel clad coin, but it is best not to let...
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It would take about 48 copper cents (to be closer to exact, 47.97681502792351) to have five ounces of copper, avoirdupois. As mentioned above,...
I know very little about identifying Byzantine coins, but a quick look at Wildwinds shows numerous examples of Theodorus I C-L with one figure and...
I don't know Chinese either, but is it possible the countermarks are not Chinese but are from Japanese occupation during WWII? I'm also curious...
At least the thieves didn't melt the coins for the gold.
Never buy a coin you do not understand. Walk away, learn and go back with a better understanding. But I love doing this, as long as the coin is...
I like coins shown in the album page in the photo, but, no, I couldn't crack it either.
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