My Coin Box

This year has been long and eventful. We had Sandy , Sandy Hook, The Election, The End of the World, Gangnam Style , Kony 2012 , The Olympi...

The last coin of the year and it's rainbow colored. It actually kind of looks like someone did some waterclor painting on it. It f...

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...

This is the Czech Republic's equivalent of the dollar and is worth $0.05 in exchange value. It's almost 20 years old and in aw...

As of January 1st, 2013 I will be posting once every other day except when it is necessary in the instances of trivia answers, other update...

In my efforts to get a pound's worth of shillings I picked up and bought this coin. I have 14 shillings so far which consists of 1...

Ahh percussion. My favorite type of instrument. Something about banging things really hard is just too fun. This was my main gift today a...

It's a golden Christmas Eve! Well, sort of. I bought this aluminum-bronze coin at the flea market for $0.10-$0.20 and though it is...

This is a beautiful coin in a bad shell. It's pretty well oxidized which is why it's black instead of its normal gold-ish colo...

This is my second favorite British coin. I haven't posted my first favorite yet but I will soon. I'm not sure how it managed t...

In the same spirit as this post on Coined For Money I'm posting a Mexican coin! They are basically the same coins in design with ...

Now that I look at this coin in a picture it seems to have some strike doubling. It most likely doesn't have any extra value, just...

If I'm not mistaken this is the first Thai coin to be featured on my blog. It was issued as a commemorative of the Fifth Asian Gam...

Worst. Coin. Ever. Not really I mean it's 10% silver which amounts to about 1/2 of a silver dime and when considering this coin is...

This week I gave a question that was almost impossible to figure out. The correct answer was D. Ancient which had 2 votes. The other vote ...

I kind of hate having this coin. It is described as having cruder diework from the previous version which is seems to be true althoug...

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

Letzeburg = Luxembourg 25 C MES = 25 Centimes or Cents. It's hard to believe there was a tiny $0.25 coin made of aluminum when Ame...

My only Malawi coin and I wouldn't have even known about it had it not been for this post . That coin caught my eye and I suppose ...

Bought this two days ago at the flea market. The Phillipine Peso under American administration was valued at 2 Pseos: 1 Dollar so this...

Another week, another closed poll! This week's answer was 10 Pence which was the only voted for answer with 5 votes. Here's the coo...

Ah, Italy. The place where virtually all silver chains come from and the place where you can could hold millions of dollars Lire in ...

Simple. That's the only word I can think of to describe this coin and yet it is so beautiful. I bought this coin about a week ago ...

Bought this at the flea market and it is a beauty! In all honesty this is probably the best condition Barber coin I have ever had. May...

Thought I'd shown this but I haven't so here it is. It's in UNC although the back does seem to have had a weak die impress...

Do you know which one is the Panamanian dime shown below? The answer to the question above is the fifth one from the left, in ot...

I bought this at the flea market a long while back. It was in the junk coin box so I decided to save it. It's in amazing condition...

The poll closed today with the question "Now that the $0.01-$10.00 series is done, what should I do?". Three People voted and non...

Another flea market silver value coin. This is typical of these coins, though, since they were the $20.00 bills of the late 19th and e...

Technically it's a $0.25 coin but quarter is easier. I bought it at the flea market for silver value which was in the $4.50-$5.00 ...