Meiji 3 (1870) 20 sen coin from Japan I bought. Nothing about it looks obviously fake to me, though it has oddly uneven wear on the rim that I'm...
I have a collection of banknotes (and a few coins) with dragons on them; collecting by theme was inspired by many here (and dragons specifically...
I wanted to send another batch of coins to be graded by ANACS, and wanted to use FedEx, but FedEx can't deliver to PO boxes, and that's the only...
At some point producers of notgeld realized people were collecting notgeld they found interesting, and created some purely for the sake of selling...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200866229592 If it's not PMD then I'm guessing this is a rather dramatic strike through...
Bought this at the Aurora Coin Show yesterday. Is a pain getting pics of a coin in a slab; my camera wants to keep focusing on the surface of the...
Submitting some of my modern proofs for grading mainly because am tired of having to open the original packaging to look at them (and well a...
Think I'm getting better at taking pictures; what do you think? (Of both the pictures and the coin.) [ATTACH][ATTACH]
My attempt to get a better picture out of this camera; besides the color I think these came out well (no it doesn't have this golden toning in...
This is as much to test my ability to get decent pictures of coins (got a new camera and seeing if it will work for this) as to show this coin...
Picked this up today with my tax refund money: United Kingdom, 1 pound, 1919 The size of this dragon in relation to St. George kind of makes...
Some things just didn't happen this year that people thought the mint would have done... well some were already announced last year to be called...
Haven't been here in a while... just wanted to share 3 new notes I just got in the mail today:...
Was in the mall and visited the currency excahnge booth; was talking to the guy there about currency, and how I collected banknotes from various...
Two sets worth, first three are gifts from my brother's mother-in-law (aunt-in-law? don't think there's actually a term for that relationship...
China, 1 dollar, 1938 Just got this in the mail today... it's well known for the depiction of Confucius making an obscene gesture, meant as a...
This may not be news to some people, but I just found this: http://www.royalmint.com/store/BritishGold/UKBQ09RN.aspx This year will be the...
Birthday was May 3... my brother who's in the Marines and was deployed to Afghanistan recently got me these two notes straight from the source:...
Just got these... one is the one I tried to buy earlier, but the seller disappeared... this time was finally able to get it: South Korea,...
While waiting for my car getting its oil changed, I went to the coin store across the street, and this jumped out at me, my first fractional:...
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