My Coin Box

In the age before the internet, this coin would require some digging. Nowhere on the coin does it say "Croatia" which makes i...

No, not short guy and Waterloo Napoleon, that's Napoleon III  on the obverse. He was the famous Napoleon's grandson with a fant...

What a beautiful coin. And for only $0.25, how could I resist? This was the most beautiful world coin I got that weekend. It's also...

One of three sixpence coins I have and this is the only copper-nickel one. So far, shillings are the most common pre-decimal coins I ha...

Damn, that's a poor ass country! Well not exactly as this was the norm in Europe (excluding the U.K.) back in the day. This pre-dec...

 All hail the Weimar Republic! It is because of them that Germany was able to produce this coin. Germany's economy was plagued by ...

Here's an interesting coin. Why? Because it marks the period when France (and most of Europe) went off the gold and silver standard...

Here's a rare and hard-to-get coin. Although, that isn't true. They're all over eBay and elsewhere, just with very high pri...

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...

My one and only silver Turkish coin and I got it for a steal. It's metal value is worth over 3 times what I bought it for. Sadly it...

What's this? A silver coin from Guatemala? I thought it was a poor country! Well, it is and they haven't issued silver for circ...

Nothing really interesting at all here. Just that this coin was from the last year of Edward VII's reign. Not sure if it's beca...

Gotta love that eagle! Of course, it is better looking and not so skinny on the coins made after 1890, but it's still the German Eag...

Not bad for my second Indian coin. My first was also a half rupee, but a more modern and less valuable one. This coin is American Quart...

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...

Here's a coin with a somewhat interesting story. Not really historically interesting, just the way I got it. As I was walking throu...

One of my three coins from Cuba. Two are common, base metal coins and this one is 90% silver. It was made back when America and Cuba we...

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...

  Ah, Soviet Russia. The place where everything was opposite. I mean just look at the denomination on the coin! Now it's just Rus...

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

  It's been a while since I posted a Nazi coin. This is another of the "ugly" zinc ones and surprisingly, it has very l...

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...

Simple yet cool. Modern yet old school. Those are a few phrases I can think of to describe this coin. A simple design yet one that I fi...

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...