Coin appraisals

Farthing is an old word meaning a fourth or a quarter. In modern usage it could refer to:

farthing, an old British coin valued one quarter of a penny

farthing, its counterpart among the predecimal coins of the Republic of Ireland

farthing, an old subdivision of the English county of Gloucestershire

Farthing, a subdivision of J. R. R. […]

Coin orientation (or coin alignment or variations of these) is a feature of coins. When viewing one side of a coin with coin orientation, correct side up, the coin must be flipped about its horizontal axis in order to see the other side the correct way up. In other words, the image on one face […]

The Coinage Act of 1864, a United States federal law, changed the composition of the one-cent coin and authorized the minting of the two-cent coin. The Director of the United States Mint was directed to develop the designs for these coins for final approval of the Secretary of the Treasury.

As a result of this law, […]

The ten pence coin was introduced on Decimal Day, February 15, 1971 and reused the design on the florin coin produced for the Irish Free State in 1928. Some florin coins remained in circulation until 1994, with the same nominal value, size and weight as the ten pence coin.

The ten pence, introduced in 1971, was […]

The two pence coin was the third smallest denomination of the Irish pound which was decimalised on Decimal Day, February 15, 1971. It was the third of three new designs introduced all in bronze.

The coin was designed by the Irish artist Gabriel Hayes and the design is adapted from the Second Bible of Charles the […]

The Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (or NGC) is a provider of third-party coin grading services to numismatists. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Sarasota, Florida. It is the official grading service of the American Numismatic Association.

Coin grading is a fee-based service in which a coin or medal is sent to an independent […]

The triens was an Ancient Roman bronze coin produced during the Roman Republic valued at one-third of an as (4 unciae). The most common design for the triens was the bust of Minerva and four pellets (indicating four unciae) on the obverse and the prow of a galley on the reverse. It was not a […]

The design of the Israeli 10 agorot coin was briefly a subject of controversy. In a press conference called by Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat in Geneva, in December 13, 1988, he claimed that the obverse design of this coin incorporates a map of a “Greater Israel” that “goes from the Mediterranean to Mesopotamia, […]

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 koban (小判, alternately ōban) was a Japanese oval gold coin in Edo period feudal Japan, equal to ten ryō, another early Japanese monetary unit (a ryō can be imagined as worth a thousand dollars, although the value of the coin, like the value of the dollar, varied considerably).

The Keichō koban, a gold piece, contained […]