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I'm not aware of any banks, anywhere in the United States, that issued their own tokens, though it was a common enough practice in Britain and Canada. If a bank was well-stocked enough with silv… (View Post)

I have a couple of these and I've enjoyed trying to figure out the undertypes. One is definitely a Spanish colonial 8 reales, date and mintmark uncertain; the other doesn't have enough surv… (View Post)

It's always difficult to help in these multi-coin threads, especially when obverse and reverse pics are all jumbled up. Here's one example: Clockwise from the top: Portugal 5 reis, looks li… (View Post)

The one and only coin I have from this mint is a 1 real from 1811. It's in awful condition (I'd grade it "AG"), but I only paid six bucks for it, eleven years ago. (View Post)

And I checked the 2x2 and found out how I bought it so cheap. The dealer had misattributed it as Mexico City mint. I don't think I even looked close enough at it to know it was Santiago until I … (View Post)