My Coin Box

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It's been a while. Here's something really important. I feel like I should make some kind of statement, however small. I still g...

Look at these majestic beauties. Anything with the walking liberty design counts as beautiful in my book. But the original use ...

It's nice to see that this little old blog of mine still gets thousand of views even after my three year absence. It has been a t...

Hello everyone, sorry for the extended absence. I've been very busy with life, school, and video games over the past few months an...

My oldest, most rare, and probably most valuable Icelandic coin. I bought it for $0.50 and knew when I saw it that it had to be mine. ...

Ever wondered why the German 5 Pfennig coins made from 1949-2001 are brass plated-steel rather than a different metal? This coin is wh...

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...

One of my now many Cuban coins. Many may be a little strong when compared to my American collection, but I do seem to be finding them ...

It's been a while since India could produce coins in this small denomination. Currently the Indian rupee is worth around $0.02 whi...

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 is one of the few coins I have that is this old and in such fine shape and of course it's American. I used to have a less desi...

This U.S. Cent-sized, .500 (50%) silver coin is a quarter? Yes, it is. Four of these would have made an Indian Rupee and now it takes ...

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. ...

I'd been needing an old Soviet coin and a few weeks ago I got one. This is the coin and while it's dirty and worn, it sits as o...

A beautiful coin! Too bad it's my only one. But then, you don't need any more when one coin has this much beauty. I got it for...

About the same size as a nickel, so it makes sense that one of these is worth about $0.05 in exchange value. At this moment I have 161...

A shilling, 12 pence, 5 cents they all mean the same thing. That's right, this U.S. Quarter-sized, 92.5% pure silver coin was to B...

I bought this coin in hopes of it being silver. Unfortunately, it is not. I figured with it being so small and holed there was a chance...

The first thing I saw of this coin was the obverse. I thought "Oh, I could use another Romanian coin." I turned to the back a...

It's official. Italy was poor. Reason #1: this coin is pretty much the same size as a U.S. Cent. It's more deeply struck but th...

Rather than use the dinar as the dollar like Iraq, Iran used it as the cent. So this 50 Dinar coin is just a 1/2 Rial. At current excha...

In my quest to acquire a coin from every country as well as my quest to get a coin from French Indo-China, I picked up this coin. Frenc...

I've been wanting one of these since January (2013)! Five months later, I get one for a steal. It's 72% silver and is worth $1.6...

 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...

 Poland: Home to some really girly birds. Germany's are much better. Why is this 90 year old coin in such great condition? Because...

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