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This is the oldest known reference to anything remotely resembling "coin collecting" in the historical record. Certainly these ancient counterfeit-collectors had, in common with us modern c… (View Post)

An aluminium token denominated in "groschen" is definitely going to be from Austria, specifically Austria in the periods 1925-1938 and 1945-1999. The word "innstufe" isn't tr… (View Post)

This is an engineering problem. I'm a chemist, not an engineer, so take this answer with the proverbial grain of sodium chloride. I'd reckon coin dies are too unwieldy to use to make a coin… (View Post)

You'll also notice that on this coin, and on most other dated coins from the 1400s, the numeral "4" hasn't quite evolved into it's modern form; it's kind-of written at a… (View Post)

Well, to be fair, finding any Roman coin is rare in Poland, since Poland is well beyond the boundary of Roman territory. Finding Roman coins in a proper archaeological context in Germany is scarce en… (View Post)