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Re: Gold Indian pendant- A question for an elderly widow
The kind of "glass" used to paint coloured patterns onto coins is normally called "vitreous enamel" or just "enamel". Enamelled coins are certainly desirable collectable… (View Post)2 -
Re: What year did you start collecting?
1980, as an eight year old. (View Post)3 -
Re: Possible Coin Graffiti Mystery Puzzle - could this be a map?
It might be a map. It might be graphical proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. It might be the secret sigil of the Super-Secret Brotherhood of Secret Secrets. It might be stranded aliens carving the star-m… (View Post)2 -
Re: Possible Qing dynasty copper cash, unidentified type
The three coins depicted in this thread are all modern machine-struck imitations of Chinese cash coins of the Qianlong emperor. Feng Shui practitioners believe that cash coins, particularly sets depi… (View Post)1 -
Re: How have you learned so much about world coins?
I don't read books as much as I used to; I guess the Internet has made me lazy. For example, back in the day, I'd buy a new Krause catalogue, and I'd read it - cover to cover. Same when I bought by c… (View Post)2
