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Cool. It's been several months since I had one, and they're almost always 50s.

Yikes. I've never heard of anything like that before, so nothing for me to help with...

Yeah, I'd agree too much change is better than no change, though neither is really preferable.

Congrats to the Buffalo!

I actually like that 1805.

I had a similar question.  I have many a lincoln cent that is not completely uniform in thickness.  One side is thinner than a normal cent while the other end of the same coin is thicker, kind of lopsided.

 

I see tons like those all the time.

I've never posted feedback for this guy? He's great!

I think this is the first time I've heard of a fake bimetallic!

Interesting how in so many places of the world coins of value under 10c are scarcely used. (But yet in the U.S. and Canada...)

Thanks also for those prices... always interesting to find out what things cost (and salaries) in different places!

Those cents...

This thing sucks!

I'd like to get that particular group of gold coins.

Don't we all? That'd be pretty cool.

Quit taking pictures of me! You know, I'm not being paid for this...

In World War 2, the Netherlands were occupied by the Germans.

 

Since our queen was not recognized as ruler by the Germans, it was not allowed to have portraits of the queen. Obviously, the Dutch people didn't agree with that, but keeping the portraits would bring them in serious trouble.

 

Therefor, many different ways were found to "bypass" the regulations.

 

One of them was to use pre-war coins and convert them to jewelry and utensils.

 

Ah, that explains why I so often see Dutch silver coin jewelery. (most often with the 10c and 25c. I have a pair of cufflinks myself, somewhere)

Kinda like how the Danish had their pins with the Christian IX monogram...

Definately of cultutal and historial interest...

I finally found the early holy grail of circulating Finnish euro coinage today in change: a 2000 €0.20 piece!!!!

 

(for those not familiar with this see the following mintage details.)

That's gotta be fun!

Odd.

Put it in your collection. There's nothing wrong with owning counterfeit, it's only a crime to create it with intent to pass it, or to pass it as the real thing.

 

It is illegal in Canada. Usually they'll just confiscate it without penalty if it appears that someone just had one (received as genuine) as an example.

Line 448:

In this Part,

"counterfeit money" includes

( a ) a false coin or false paper money that resembles or is apparently intended to resemble or pass for a current coin or current paper money,

( b ) a forged bank-note or forged blank bank-note, whether complete or incomplete,

( c ) a genuine coin or genuine paper money that is prepared or altered to resemble or pass for a current coin or current paper money of a higher denomination,

( d ) a current coin from which the milling is removed by filing or cutting the edges and on which new milling is made to restore its appearance,

( e ) a coin cased with gold, silver or nickel, as the case may be, that is intended to resemble or pass for a current gold, silver or nickel coin, and

( f ) a coin or a piece of metal or mixed metals that is washed or coloured by any means with a wash or material capable of producing the appearance of gold, silver or nickel and that is intended to resemble or pass for a current gold, silver or nickel coin

Criminal Code Line 450:

Every one who, without lawful justification or excuse, the proof of which lies on him,

( a ) buys, receives or offers to buy or receive,

( b ) has in his custody or possession, or

( c ) introduces into Canada,

counterfeit money is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

I believe that coin copies are the numismatic equivalent of devil worship. It doesn't matter what kind of copy, whether ancient counterfeit (fouree), ancient imitation, modern replica, old modern forgery, new modern forgery, whatever, they're all exactly the same. Exactly. They're pure evil, and anyone who even thinks about collecting them should be reported to the International Bureau of Numismatic Standards and Puritanism, which has as its U.N.-chartered purpose the promulgation of what's collectable and what's not. Copies are not collectable, neither are they collectible, and above all else nobody here should ever write that they're collectuble.

Could you explain that? A search for "International Bureau of Numismatic Standards and Puritanism" turns up nothing.

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