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2. Glossary of numismatics - Wikipedia

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   A false date put on a coin to defraud collectors, usually to make it appear more valuable. Such alterations are often easily spotted with the aid of a magnifying glass. anepigraphic coin A coin without an epigraph or inscription. Many ancient coins used only a simple picture of an animal to show value or weight. annealing

3. Counterfeit money - Wikipedia

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   On coins, milled or reeded (marked with parallel grooves) edges are used to show that none of the valuable metal has been scraped off. This detects the shaving or clipping (paring off) of the rim of the coin. However, it does not detect sweating, shake coins in a bag, and collect the resulting dust. Since this technique removes a smaller amount ...

4. Portal:Numismatics - Wikipedia

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   Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals, and related objects. Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also includes the broader study of money and other means of payment used to resolve debts and exchange goods.

5. List of numismatic collections - Wikipedia

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   Central Bank of Uzbekistan, Minor Collection 400+ coins Uzbekistan: Shahrisabz: Shahrisabz Museum of History and Material Culture, Minor Collection Uzbekistan: State Museum of History of Uzbekistan. Unknown Collection United Kingdom: Ashmolean Museum: 333,000 United Kingdom: British Museum Department of Coins and Medals: 1,000,000 [17] United ...

6. Coin collecting - Wikipedia

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   Coin collecting is the collecting of coins or other forms of minted legal tender. Coins of interest to collectors include beautiful, rare, and historically significant pieces. Collectors may be interested, for example, in complete sets of a particular design or denomination, coins that were in circulation for only a brief time, or coins with ...

7. Dubai Coins Museum - Wikipedia

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   The Coins Museum in Dubai, also known as "The Coins Museum in Bur Dubai," is located in the Emirate of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in Al-Bastakia, Bur Dubai. [1] It is a museum that entirely specializes in coins, and it aims to expand the knowledge of coins that were used in the region in the past, in addition to acknowledge the close link between the monetary system of the British ...