My Coin Box

What's twice the size of a U.S. cent and only worth half of one in face value? This coin! Two of these (relatively) large coins wo...

Aluminum: a metal that seems to be common among cents these days. If they're still being produced, that is. East Germany is no lon...

This coin is large, but not in charge. It's quite a few times bigger than a U.S. cent which isn't surprising because the U.S. ...

 Guess who got two Cuban coins for $1.00? Me! I bought this and a 5 Centavo coin for my Cuban coin collection. So now I have five inste...

Don't pay any attention to the name of the country- it's just the fancy and archaic way to say East Caribbean States. I got thi...

What a beautiful cent! And in AU, too. It's from the Netherlands Antilles which isn't a country anymore, but when it was it mad...

That's right, three. And they all came in early April which means I got them a month earlier than the 2012 one I got last year, whi...

If memory serves this is my first foreign coin find from change this year. A lot later than last year, I know, but I did get three shin...

My one and only Ethiopian coin. It was "Struck at Philadelphia, Birmingham and the Royal Mint, London between 1944 and 1975 with t...

A coin on a Monday! This one features the severed head of Queen Wilhelmina, or at least that's my interpretation of it. This coin w...

Here's a nice coin. Too bad it features one of my least favorite portraits of the Queen. It was equal to a British Half Penny at th...

Here's a coin from a time when Mexico could actually produce 1 Cent coins. Now their lowest denomination is the 5 Cent coin which ...

It took me a while to identify this coin at first as I couldn't seem to be able to find it right above the one with the volcano. I...

Here's another one of the Canadian Cents/Pennies I bought before it's demise. It is in awful shape, but even in this condition ...

Now that the Canadian cent has had it's life support cut off, it will soon see less and less time in circulation. With the hoarder...

My first, and only, Czechoslovakian coin. I got it in the junk bin at the flea market for relatively little and, even in this conditio...

A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away... this happened. I don't know who but I do know how and possibly why. Someone obvious...

A little over 10 years after the U.S. left and the Philippines were still using the old U.S. Administration designs. My favorite aspec...

 Zinc Heart (far left) ~ Zinc Sheep (middle) ~ Zinc Foil (far left) What a beautiful coin (not)! If you stick a post-1982 Americ...

Yes these two pictures are the same coin. I took the first picture with no flash and the second picture with a flash and together they...