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I believe that some in the TPG's have blinders on whence they grade coins for larger consigners, ala auction companies, big name clients. Just have a look at that Farouk $20 from 1933, it is way overgraded. Farouk is known to have played with his coins, shown them to his girlfriends etc.

Buy the coin, not the holder. It is a meaningful and very true statement.

Curiously since you bring up Washington state I hear that lots of Canadians are travelling over the border and shopping in the Costcos there and hoarding all the cheap milk and food items so much so that people are campaigning for Costco to have "American only" shopping hours. What a joke. I think Canadians spending their Canadian monies in the USA is a wonderful idea - and I encourage them to do much much more.

Wow, I have bought much more significant purchases in British auctions and had them shipped to USA and never encountered anything like tax bill. Maybe because VCoins is USA based, but has shared auctions with venues in Europe is the reason you had that issue.

Graders grade the coins, but practically nobody grades the graders. There are a few of us purist collectors that live by the "buy the coin, not the holder" axiom because the coin is what is the factor - not the plastic tomb that someone puts them in. I can cite examples of clear instances of overgrading, undergrading etc because sometimes it is not so much what the coin is, but who submitted it that factors in the grade given. And that is all I will say.

The hologram from the note:

At 7-11 on way to hockey game to pick up snacks that are cheaper there than at the arena, I ask the clerk if she has any unusual coins in the cash register that I can have in my change - no was her answer, then she said, "oh wait, someone set these aside for some reason, you can have them..." 1926 Lincoln 1941 Lincoln 1944 Canada GVI cent The '26 is the earliest I have gotten in change and from a non-roll searching find in awhile.

First coin is year 11 of Heisei reign - so 1999 Second coin is year 47 of Showa reign so 1972 Third coin is year 48 of Showa reign so 1973 Fourth coin is 10 sen from Showa reign year 20 1945

Armenia 5 Dram 1994

I was thinking afterwards, I did find a relative of one of the soldiers, the British soldier, and they were in Canada. I contacted them through ancestry.com a couple of years ago and they never responded.

What a great follow-up on this story. I have a couple of "Death Pennies" that I have researched as much as I can to find out about the families, curiously one of them was for an American serving in the British Army during WWI - the medal was sent from the UK to his family in Portland Oregon in 1919. I have all the paperwork from back then - but not afterwards.

Condition and type of coin are paramount - need to see good images to make any such estimation.

I am sort of on a precipice where I am thinking over time that I am going to start letting whole collections of themes I have collected for years. Interests sort of faded over time or I don't make enough time for that stuff. Buying high end stuff is a known, but searching through circulating coins appeals to the wanderlust/gambler mentality I toy with. I was looking up when my last significant purchase of a banknote was, it was back in January, and I haven't bought significant coins since March or so. I still like numismatics, just interests evolve and I seem to have found something more adventurous with my current pursuits.

Don't know anything about it, but it is a beautiful piece as many from that era are. It was actually a fairly significant exposition, even the US post office issued commemorative stamps for it.

My Indian notes are my only non-thematic part of my collection - had to have them because they have one of the most amazing people to have ever graced a banknote. Someone no doubt who wouldn't have been to big on having his image on banknotes!

I have owned the Czech Republic note for about 8-9 years if that is any help dating it. I believe it was created ca. 1997-8.

I have seen them in catalogues listed as "largesse" pieces but maybe "throwing" coin is more how they are described in Sweden. They were listed in old Krause catalogues in 1980s because when they were made in 19th century some found way to circulate like a coin. These pieces were also made in symbolism in Scotland, as "touch" pieces or mere commemorative medals. I own one that was given out by Charles I at his Scottish coronation in 1633, allegedly he had one made of gold that he kept as his own piece.

In the Gaza they used the Egyptian pound until 1967, in the West Bank they used the Jordanian Dinar. There are so many political ramifications, but the main problem is that the Palestinians are too busy fighting the Palestinians ie Fatah vs. Hamas to make anything possible. But there is some mint in Europe that is making "Palestinian" dinar coins for collectors - they are on eBay all the time. Those coins have no official sanction though.

1993

It is printed by National Bank of Ukraine, they have their own presses etc. But I have to imagine they have some consultancy with De La Rue.

Here is one quietly printed and released in small numbers in Ukraine, it was conjectured that the design with portrait of Panteleimon Kulish was going to be used for proposed 1000 Hryven note but instead was used as presentation piece which is noted in overprinted red lettres. This note comes with folder about printing techniques and features of this note.

Only recognised by people that like fun:

Northern League of Italy, a secessionist movement.

The first two use Russian rubles, the last one uses Euro currency. Kosovo did overprint Macedonian notes in 1999, but then adopted the Euro when it became a currency in 2002.

I believe they are made more for publicity and collectors than for actual circulation. The Transdnestr notes actually circulate, because it operates as a country but not recognised by too many other places. Pretty scary place actually, like a 50 year throwback to 1950s era USSR - and place I travelled through without permission once - I played asleep going through border check. Many roads near now borders in the old USSR cross back and forth because one time until 1991 they were all in the same country.