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What's the reason behind the 17th century tradition of British monarchs being depicted on coins facing in the opposite direction to their predecessor?
I have just been informed that on Britain's new currency King Charles III will be depicted facing the opposite direction from Queen Elizabeth II. There are plenty of articles on google claiming to ...
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Please help identify these old coins found in Germany?
We found these two identical coins in our garden (near Wuerzburg, lower Franconia / northern Bavaria):
Coin side A: coat-of-arms of sorts:
(the scale units are centimetres / millimetres)
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How did people cut "pieces of eight"?
The Spanish silver peso was a very common coin consisting of "fine quality silver, assayed at .931 or .916," according to CoinWeek. Under some circumstances one peso coins, worth eight reales, would ...
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Is the Disme or the Flowing Hair Dollar the considered the first official U.S coin?
The disme was first minted in 1792 but later turned in to dime with that being said the flowing hair dollar was first minted in 1794 which its size and weight were based on the Spanish dollar, vs the ...
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Has there ever been a non-rectangular banknote?
You all know that every national flag but Nepal's is rectangular. Most coins are roundish. These are some old norms.
What about paper money? The rectangular form is close to universal. After poking ...
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Need help identifying 2 old coins? Struck coins, one with two standing human figures facing each other
Can anyone tell me what these 2 coins are ?
How can I safely clean them?
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When and where were the first coins made showing the currency or a face value?
According to this article Origin and Evolution of Money, coins
...for many centuries...were guaranteed by their intrinsic value, that is to say, by the trade value of the metal used in their ...
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Please help to identify these coins
First coin: it dates 1670. The coat of arms seems to show the checkerboard as in Flag of Bavaria, but that's speculation
Second coin: it dates 1770. The inscription beginns with D.G.MAX.IOS. etc., ...
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Can you tell me about this coin? श्री महेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाहदेव 2012. i.e in English Sri Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev 2012
This is a photo of both sides of the coin.
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List of Roman Imperial Coins ~0 CE/AD
I'm trying to find a list of Roman Imperial Coins that were used around 0 CE/AD.
Most of the my searches turn up lots of shopping pages. After sorting through tons of listings, I can find lists that ...
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What coin is this? Arabic: 10 Fulus, over crossed wheat and lead
Years ago (maybe 15), my grandfather gave me this coin and I have no idea what it is or where it came from. Can anyone help? I'm pretty sure it came from the Middle East (he did a lot of work there ...
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Is this a Caesar silver coin?
A friend showed me a coin he found a number of years a go, but it is hard to identify if it is a Roman coin.
Can someone help me identify when it is from?
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Did Mesopotamia have coins to represent Gerahs & Minas?
I am doing a project on Mesopotamia and have stumbled upon their currency system. They have Gerahs, Shekels and Minas. These units of currency are referred to by their laws, yet I can only find ...
