Your Favorite Websites for Philippine Numismatics

I am hoping each member of this group will think of other numismatists who seek to expand their knowledge and contribute at least two addresses of their favorite websites, newsgroups, or blogs that deal with Philippine numismatics. By doing so we can contribute to building an expanded knowledge base, and increased interest in Philippine coins, notes, medals, and tokens.

This should be a great help to novice and advanced collectors. PLEASE CONTRIBUTE!

To get the ball rolling, I suggest:

Pinoy Banknotes (run by an esteemed member of this group): http://pinoynotes.hostoi.com/

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (The Money Museum Portal): http://www.bsp.gov.ph/about/facilities_money.asp

Kalookan

Here are more websites relating to Philippine numismatics that I would highly recommend:

1) www.manilagalleontrade.webs.com
2) http://www.philippinephilatelist.net/mint/survey11.html
3) www.philippinecoins.com
4) www.bill-jetblack.com

These following websites will be very useful to both novice and advance collectors specializing in Philippine numismatic item.

EWY

For guerilla war script and currency collectors, you may find useful information from www.guerilla-money.com

Of course, this site!

Can I put forward The Cookie Jar as one of my favourite sites .... http://mysite.verizon.net/cookiejarpi/index.html It's one of the best Auction houses for Philippinne Banknotes, Coins and a heap of other good stuff...All Filipino. It's run by Ray Czahor who's a top bloke.

Cookie jar collectibles auctions are ok, but some of his current counterstamp coins listed for sale are mixed with fakes and contemporary counterfeits which novice collectors should be extremely cautious when buying.
Me and my friend examine his coins meticulously last few weeks ago and found out about 70% of them are dubious.
However, the rest of his numismatic items are relatively okay.

EWY

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coinforgeryebay/4624710587/

I found this site to have some interesting postings

chopped wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coinforgeryebay/4624710587/

I found this site to have some interesting postings

Really, embosed sold fake counterstamp coins?

That website was loaded by ingybob on ebay. He was from Australia who wants to destroy my reputation by posting my listings on that site. We have some disagreements on ebay before because he wanted to negotiate to buy my item directly but I refused. That's why he uses dirty tactics on me. He himself had 5 negatives on his user account.

emboses,

I saw that ingybob is not a seller and his feedback profile is private. I saw some of your Chinese coins and Spanish reales and they are very similar to fakes being sold by sellers from China like ashdei, fakongtian, etc. Can you please explain this?

Kanor

Embose should explain. I agree with Kanor that ingybob is not a seller and his feedback profile is private. Marami ding embose dun sa ebay user name and i believe they are one and the same. I also saw some of your coins and its obvious that its fake.

Chinese fakes are so good that you could almost mistake them for the real thing. This is getting worrisome because the market is flooded with these fakes and most sellers don't even know the difference. One clue that you should look for a professional ebay fake seller is if he is selling cheap electronic gadgets like cellphones, memory card, etc. Secondly, if he is from China. Third, if he is using descriptions such as "silver look" or "silver like". Fourth, if he is selling rare coins all at the same time like Russian Poltina, German Guinea Mark, Dos Mondos, and Hawaii dollar which happens to be rare coins no less than 2K dollars in value. Its just a common sense, rare coins does't fall like rain. Ebay.ph has those kind of scams so watch out for those characters. Goodluck to all!