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Roman. "Fel Temp Reparatio" type depicting a soldier spearing a fallen horseman. Obverse appears to be Constantius II. c. mid-late 350s AD A Google image search for "fel temp reparatio" will bring up many nice examples of this type.

Very easy call indeed.

AH1327/4=~1913 100 kurush if it's about the size of a sovereign. (BTW, how did you end up buying a gold coin without knowing the denomination/weight? That would seem to be a bit risky.)

Top left is a charm / token that reads "ninth year of the Republic" (1920) The rest are standard Peking (Beijing) issues from the reign of Chi'en Lung (Qianlong).

To add to Art's comments, I would say that the vast majority of dealers are one-man shows, with some husband-and-wife teams and the slightly less seen father-and-son teams. That said, most larger cities usually have two or more larger sized stores that have employees, whether they be regular full time staff, or part timers, or in some cases, on-call / casual consultants (the latter of which may be pulled from their client base). That being said, many stores have some sort of online presence, so there would be potential opportunity to start with assisting with the online side of things - answering inquiries, website updates, uploading listings, packaging and mailing online orders, etc. That seems to be something that may fit in well for you since it would allow you to learn at your own pace, whereby working front end operations would probably be a very steep learning curve, since many stores deal in a wide variety of items that may extend beyond mainstream numismatics. The main concern is that salary and career options would be somewhat limited in such a role.

NCLT and NCLT-like pieces (regular circulation coins of exceptionally low mintage, especially when compared to other dates of the same type) are always a sensitive topic. To each their own.

to your efforts and the medal! The volunteer's medals in past games were distinct from the athlete's participation medals, and in at least one case executives were given medal(s) that were a mule between the two.

Yes, it would appear so to be a dirhem.

Hello and welcome! If you could kindly provide a picture that would be much assistance to help us help you :-)

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Indian States is not my area of expertise but avg. circulated 20th century copper coins aren't exactly the type of thing I'd expect to see fakes of.

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Very nice - and first time I've seen that cent!

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On the left side picture it looks like there's a seam going around the edge.

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Yes, that's 1504 alright :-) Here's one of mine (pictures from several years ago). I see on Omni that Tiff's got one as well. (a hoard of high grade 1504's came on the market about a decade ago)

An excellent draw - my condolences to you both!

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Rooster would also be my pick for a first time gold since it looks nice (disclaimer: I've never actually seen one in person). For a smaller piece, a half sovereign is also readily available for close to spot.

A lovely classical style piece!

Very nice

And so the Japanese ¥5000 half ounce silver coin set the precedent for the current Canadian CA$50 half ounce silver coin. The main difference is that NCLT and obsolete type coins are much easier to exchange in Tokyo relative to trying to exchange any NCLT or obsolete type Canadian coin in any Canadian city.

I think today there's more deeper pocket individuals with an interest in collectibles, but not in collecting itself (e.g. buying collectibles for the sake of it rather than being serious collectors who understand what they're buying), and so it's only now that there's the opportunity for it to take off. Some earlier examples of higher value FV precious metal coins that I can think of include (where FV exceeded BV considerably at time of issue and coin was offered at face value or a small premium above face value, approx. FV in brackets) include... France 100 Francs 1982-1990 (15.0g .900 silver, 0.434 ASW, FV~=$20) Annual mintage 3-5 million pieces, available at FV. Netherlands 50 gulden 1982,84,87,88,90,91,94,95,98 (25.0g, .925 silver, 0.743 ASW, FV~=$35) 200k - 1.8m mintage for each issue Japan 5000 yen 1990,93,97,98 (15.0g .925 or .999 silver, 0.446 or 0.482 AGW, FV ~=$50) Mintage 5 or 10 million per type, some years had more than one type issue Japan 50000 yen 1986,87,90 (18.0g .999 gold, 0.579 AGW, FV ~=$500) 1.8 million pieces struck (non proofs) Japan 100000 yen 1986,87,90 (20.0g .999 gold, 0.643 AGW, FV ~=$1000) ~12 million pieces struck (non proofs). Counterfeits in full weight gold known to exist. Switzerland 20 Francs 1991-present (20.0g .835 silver, 0.537 ASW, FV~=$20) This piece is currently issued at a small premium over FV Switzerland 250 Francs 1991 (8.00g .900 gold, 0.2315 AGW, FV~=$250)