Thanks Red Badger. Nice find!
Posted on 11/17/2023 12:00:30 PM PST by Red Badger
Interesting. My understanding is that the rough edges were added to coins to make them harder to counterfeit.
Silver? Copper? Bronze? Gold?
Maybe I missed it but you think they might have mentioned it
COOL! I WANT ONE!
They actually found one on Oak Island, Nova Scotia…
LOL! I guess he didn’t trust banks. Maybe he WAS the bank!
Apparently they are very common. You can probably find a real one on ebay or a local coin store. Fakes are available on Aliexpress. I have a real one someplace that I bought when I was in elementary school (probably paid around $1 or so for it).
Thanks Red Badger. Nice find!
They did until the militarists took over and cracked down. There are probably other large caches of coins to be found which were buried around this same time. ;^)
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I remember seeing them at a coin show, but I don’t remember what they cost.
I do have a Roman coin I bought at a show, but it depicts a minor Roman emperor, Postamus, who was killed by his own troops.
The last time I saw cash coins in any quantity was on vacation to Hawaii when I visited a coin store. Lots of Asian coins and paper money there (Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, etc) and was bargain priced compared to what it would cost in the continental US.
I spent much of my childhood in coin shops learning about fiat money, hard currency, FDR’s confiscation of gold, inflation, etc. Learned a lot of real-world knowledge i never got through many years of school and college.
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