When I was a nipper I tried to collect a penny for every year for the past ~100 years.
Informal collecting, pestering everyone to check their change etc.
My recollection at the time was that I’d done quite well.
Fast forward ~60 years to now and I checked how I’d really done.
Turns out I barely managed half of them ☹
Just tried to send birthday presents (<10000PHP so duty free) , and after being in customs for 1 month the courier (Evri, UK) is saying it is lost and wants me to abandon it.
Is there a reliable way to ship to Cebu without suffering this lost-in-customs lottery?
I have a bag of Chinese coins bought during various Asia travels ~15 years ago.
I suspect most of them are ‘reproductions'.
But I’ve just re-discovered that among them is this 1976 IOM Crown.
Seems like an unlikely coin for a copying enterprise in Guangdong or wherever to target. Could it be real?