Coin appraisals

The fals (plural fulus) was a copper coin produced by the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates beginning in the late 7th century. The name is a corruption of follis, a Roman and later Byzantine copper coin. The fals usually featured ornate Arabic script on both sides. Various copper fals were produced until the 19th century.

The silver Three Farthings (¾d) coin was introduced in Queen Elizabeth I’s third and fourth coinages (1561-1582) as part of a plan to produce large quantities of coins of varying denominations and high metal content.

The obverse shows a left-facing bust of the queen, with a rose behind her, with the legend E D G ROSA […]

The Gold Bullion Coin Act of 1985, Pub. L. No. 99-185, 99 Stat. 1177 (Dec. 17, 1985), codified at through (a)(10), , , and amending and , has helped the American Eagle Gold Bullion Coins to quickly become one of the world’s leaders in gold bullion coin. Produced from gold mined in the […]

The half laurel was a British coin minted between 1619 and 1625, with a value of ten shillings (half a pound, or laurel).

The half laurel was the third British gold coin with a value of ten shillings produced during the reign of King James I. It was named after the laurel that the king is […]

This article is about the gambling coin game. For other uses, see Nickel (disambiguation).

Nickels is a gambling coin game played with any desired denomination of coins. It is played on a flat, hard surface next to a back wall, such as the side of a building or a street curb. The objective of […]

The Broad was a British coin worth 20 shillings (20/-) issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. It was a milled gold coin weighing 9.0–9.1 grams, with a diameter of 29 or 30 millimetres, designed by Thomas Simon (also called Symonds).

The obverse of the coin depicts the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell as a laureated […]

Koban can refer to two different Japanese words, with different pronunciations:

kōban (交番), with a long o: Koban (police box)

Koban (小判), with a short o: Koban, a former Japanese oval gold coin

It is also the name of the ancient Koban culture in Ossetia.

Retention of Vision is a conjuring term referring to the perceived image of an object during a vanish (usually associated with vanishing coins). In a Retention of Vision vanish the spectator sees a coin placed on a palm and as the fingers are closed around the coin it is secretly removed, but, due to the […]

A pattern coin is a coin produced for the purpose of evaluating a proposed coin design, but which was not approved for general circulation. Generally, these coins are of interest only to collectors of pattern coins. However, pattern coins that are later selected for normal production, such as the United States 1856 Flying Eagle […]

The American 5-cent Coin Design Continuity Act of 2003 (Public law 108-15, 31 United States Code 5101) allowed coinage of the commemmorative Westward Journey Nickel Series and mandated that Monticello be depicted on the 2006 nickel, as it had been previously.

The act also established the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee.