I`ve never paid more than $12 for a coin, can you belive me? Digging in the coin boxes gives me fun and the cause is not low price - 1 zloty (about $0.30). Once a month I find a real pearl for my collection, like golden tschervonez 1976, 5 rubel coin with Nicolaus II, 20 german mark with Wilhelm II; sometimes fakes happened - like Austrian 100 kronen with Franz Joseph - looks like gold, almost perfect ... I wonder if you like to digg in coins and what is your greater discovery.
Nice finds mate :hug: I dont think I have had anything quite as good as that come my way LOL De Orc :kewl:
Tom,that Chervonets (10 Roubles) is a Russian coin,as opposed to a U.S.S.R. coin.That 20 Mark with Kaiser Wilhelm II is a Prussian coin. You should post your Czar Nicholas II 5 Roubles,as those are usually very nice coins. Aidan.
I know russian and I was thinking how to write "chervonets" in english... - sorry for mistake! I like it`s early socialistic design - simply but strong, if you know what I mean.
If you want to have fun digging, come to India.. Sometimes you'll get real treasures from the heaps some guys offer here.. The only thing is you need to know Persian, Sanskrit, Tamil and a couple of very old languages..
If you want to dig for coins in the U.K.,you have to be extremely careful,as there are severe penalties under the Treasure Act,1996 if you do not report a find.You won't be allowed to export ancient coins from Cyprus,Greece,& Turkey,as there are also severe penalties from trying to smuggle ancient coins out.Yes,you will have to leave that copper Roman coin behind in those 3 countries. Aidan.
The one that you find in the ground, yes. If you buy a pretty common ancient coin at a museum store in Greece, for example, you can get some kind of certificate which basically says it's OK to take the coin out of the country. But you should resist the temptation of buying ancient coins, say, at a Turkish market: The vendor will of course sell it to you, and it may even be authentic but you cannot legally export it. By the way, digging for coins in the ground can be problematic in Germany too - what you can and cannot do varies from state to state. Digging for coins in boxes is not a problem. Christian
Legally, you cannot export coins of more than 100 years old from here in India without permission from the archaeology department. But I think, nobody cares about this now.. Also, anything you get from ground is the property of the government as per law. But rarely these finds go to the government. I wish none of these ever go to the governement as most of them will never see the light again.. They simply lock these coins in dark rooms without further studies...
