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I have an example of this coin and it was represented to weigh 2.07 grams. (View Post)

Check the Numista entry for Bao Quan. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/mint.php?id=4219 (View Post)

This is an easy one. The top view is actually the reverse and shows the tell-tale Manchu script. The lower view, upside down, has the very distinctive characters for the Qian Long emperor. 1736 - 179… (View Post)

Something different, from Bessarabia (Moldova). My father once told me that the family emigrated there, from Germany, at the behest of the czar of the time. Doubt that they were there that long as my… (View Post)

Wasn't too interested in this banal medal; your typical flourish of a coat-of-arms. But it was inscribed, and past experience sometimes reveals a treasure underneath. Turns out this medal had be… (View Post)