Don't Devalue Your Coins By Cleaning and/or Polishing Them This is a short guide to explain why the numismatic world frowns upon cleaned coins and those that perpetrate the deed. If you are considering the...
Three Good Reasons for Collecting Crown Coins; The Crown is normally the largest silver coin issued during most reigns. Crowns have generally been struck in large enough quantities to enable a collector to...
The original value of the United Kingdom Crown was Five Shillings. Queen Elizabeth II Crowns come in two values, namely five shilling or twenty-five pence and five pounds. The reason for this is because as a...
Commemorative Banknotes - What you need to know? Introduction Unless you have been buying or selling banknotes, in other words have experience in the banknote market on eBay, you may end up paying over the...
Years ago growing up as a poor young boy in Pennsylvania, I would often fantasize about having a magic carpet or a time machine to go back to a world long gone. A time machine or a magic carpet would be the...
Piedfort - Heavy Weight Coins - Silver Gold Platinum A piedfort is a specially struck coin, originally made for presentation, perhaps by a monarch. The word "piedfort" is French and literally means "heavy...
BUY LINCOLN CENT NOW I think that Lincoln Cent in the next 8 to 14 months will be a lot higher than they are now. Like a lot of collectors I Started My Collecting with Lincoln Cents WHEN I Started in 1953...
Spellings on eBay Is good spelling important? How many eBay listings contain really bad spellngs? Does it matter?We often despair at many of the spellings on eBay. Some of them are so bad that we find...
A Brief History of the Gold £5 Coin The Largest British Gold Coin The five pound gold coin is Britain's largest and most impressive gold coin, although there was previously a five guinea piece which was about...
2 Euros commemorative coin - Luxembourg / Lëtzebuerg / Luxemburg 2006 - new coin UNC. 25th Birthday of Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume. The coin depicts the effigy of Grand Duke Henri on the left side of the...