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My general rule of thumb for telling Korean apart from other East Asian languages on coins: look for the circles. Chinese and Japanese characters (at least, the forms of those characters that are nor… (View Post)

As I believe at least one of the articles about this find describes, under Belgian treasure law, the "original owner" of the gold have five years to come to the authorities with proof of th… (View Post)

To answer this specific aspect of the OP question: yes, in theory a blank can slip straight through the presses without being struck. You've seen those rather rare mint errors where the coin des… (View Post)

OK, so let's see what we've got. You've got three Roman denarii, all from the middle period of Imperial history. Coin 1 (pictures 1 and 3): emperor Lucius Verus, reverse PROV DEOR TRP … (View Post)

Sure. Two that come to mind from the American series are, of course, the Confederate States (for which coins are functionally nonexistent) and the Republic of Texas (for which coins are actually none… (View Post)