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Privy marks, on mediaeval and early modern European coins, had quite a different purpose to what the US Mint and many other modern mints (eg. RAM, RCM, Perth) use them for. A "privy mark", … (View Post)

Once upon a time, scientists, mathematicians and engineers needed to know how to use a slide rule. Anybody who graduated from university after 1980 has probably never seen a slide rule, let alone kno… (View Post)

Most world coin collectors don't narrow down to a specific type, or even a specific country. For example, "thalers" are quite popular with European collectors, but that term encompasse… (View Post)

Hello and welcome. It is - or was - a coin from Bulgaria. The four visible letters - backwards-N H K backwards-N - are the last letters of the name of the Bulgarian minor denomination "stotinki&… (View Post)

"Blue Boar" is a fairly "believably safe" generic name, as there are dozens of pubs named "Blue Boar" in England. It's kind of like The Simpsons creators naming the… (View Post)