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Iraq KM#108 10 Fils 1943 mintage 1.5Million 6.75 gr, 25 mm Bronze

Looks as though it might be a Pachinko token: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko Most of them are around 25 mm diameter.

Well, it's a step up (just) from Trotter's International Trading.

A point very well made. I have access to a pro paint shop with fans and filters and tend to forget that there are hazards in home use. Apologies.

His feedback was entertaining. Two feeedback, two different years, two supposedly different sellers and identical wording. His purchases were also interesting.

I get mine from the Post Office.

Cellulose thinners works on most lacquer, just be sure that it contains xylene and toluene, neither of which should harm your coin.

I don't collect these but someone has asked me to find a few different sets for him. Also according to Krause, the set doesn't include KM# 185, the silver proof Millenium $50 which has no date but was issued 2002.

After 2001, there is no actual record of a BOJ issue. A supposedly 2002 set was offered last year in Toronto or Vancouver, forget which, but withdrawn before auction. All I remember is that it wasn't Empire Auctions or Waddingtons, so probably Vancouver.

Er, whoops!

The lustre seems in keeping with pennies and halves of a similar age, with no signs of darkening. Even bronze colour shows through in all wear points.

Regrettably, I'm old enough to have used farthings on a daily basis. This a farthing. 20 mm.

Debbie's cut out farthing reminded me of one I have but had never paid much attention to. It has lustre. I thought they were still darkened in 1911.

We're pensioners for God's sake! It's probably taken us four hours to get our respective trusses and prosthetics strapped on, just so we can amble down to Marks & Sparks and gaze longingly upon real food before reality kicks in. Then we go and squander the winter heating money in Lidl & Netto, wasting it on luxuries like cheap soup. And all this while you supercharged youngsters are trampling all over us to buy sandwiches, stuff you could have made at home if you'd taken the time to think. And saved a bit of brass too.

Thank you, that's absolutely spot on.

It would have made you more perhaps 5-7 years ago when portrait medals of Albert were strangely popular. This type of medal is pretty much my day to day trade and I would expect this to fetch £7.00 on Ebay, possibly £10-12 retail. Bob

Dremel ready and waiting. Might even add some value.

The tin halfpenny also has a plug, and as this piece is larger than the Charles II tin farthing; I'd always assumed it to be the 1/2d.

This has been knocking around my desk since 1967. 27 mm, 11.2 gr. It appears to be tin with a copper plug. The file mark has been there as long as I've known it and the colour doesn't seem to fade. The scan does no favours, as this is far more readable in hand. At least, the reverse is. The obverse does resemble James, but you wouldn't pick him out of a line up based solely on this image. The edge such as it is appears rounded. Contemporary circulating forgery perhaps?

This is the date from a Seville 8R: Counterstamp from same coin: Until now I'd not realised that mainland Spanish coins had been stamped.

I had thought that only Spanish colonial coins were counterstamped as this one.

"Fools and their Money are soon parted" But how do they get together in the first place?

I moved house on February 29th, and they already know where I live.

"Like the Buttercup one - although it looks like it has been newly engraved?" Buttercup is different, it's hand scribed using one V shaped and one half round tool rather than a machine. There is a triangular cut at each end of the letters and then the engraver gives a straight push or goes round curves in small increments.

Couldn't resist these: Buttercup is a German Empire 50 pfennig, Onions (yes, really) a Victoria 3d and Marie a French Empire 20 centimes.