Flickr was down Saturday. I got bored. I took pictures.

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A 1952 Uncirculated Franc in my coin. Very large and thick coin here. The size was originally supposed to resemble the 5 Francs, which too were made of aluminium. The coin today in reality is worthless but nominally is priceless. Or more like 2 bucks.

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A 1965 Very Fine Quarter in my collection. A lot of writing on this piece.

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A 1900 Very Fine Cash in my collection. This coin, instead of having "One Cent," it reads "Ten Cash" on the reverse in English. In the middle it shows "Kwang-tung Kuang-hsu Yuan money" and around it shows the Board of Finance and Copper Coinage 10 Cash. The inscriptions are read …

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JSG Boggs drew his very first bill in 1984 while sitting in a Chicago bar. The artist was doodling on a napkin, and the waitress liked his drawing and asked if he would pay his 90-cent bill with it instead of real money, and the "Boggs Notes" were born. That …

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Image from "Worn, Torn & Soiled" by Erik Goldstein and Joseph R. Lasser in the September 2008 issue of The Numismatist

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A 1891 Very Fine Centime in my collection. Features "Ceres," a French goddess found on coins after Napoleon III.

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A couple of years ago, before horse photography took over my life, my daughter and I were heavily into coin collecting. Not to get rich for sure, just to see as many country’s worth of coins we could collect. We soon realized we really enjoyed coins with animals on them …

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One of my brothers is an avid map collector – mostly of Trinidad and Tobago maps. However, maps enclosed with the National Geographic are always welcomed in his collection. He also has had this globe for many years and still keeps it although it has already come apart at the …

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a coin of unknown origin given to me by my sister (side 1)

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