My Biggest Coin

Correct. AE bronze; 15 shekels denomination. Tough coin to flip using your thumb before a football game.

 

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Great coins all. My largest struck is a club series As at 48 grams.

 

LOL, and yeah, you have some coooool MONSTER CAST early Republic AES' too !

 

I thought exactly the same thing !!

 

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TRANSYLVANIA Michael Apafi 4 Taler 1662 42 mm (c. 5 mm thick) 116.53 g

 

What a haul: I add mine. Sorry, but I purchased it in the slab, don't worry, it won't be in there long.

 

Not a real coin, until it is out of the plastic tomb...

 

Are these machine-struck or hand-struck?

 

You need a TIF shirt for that.

 

Transylvania’s first regular issue machine-struck Taler was issued by Sigismund Bathori in 1590. I think that by 1662 all the coins were machine struck, although a flan that size must have caused some challenges.

 

Got this monster medal recently, posted in another thread already. 50 mm D, about 60 grams, AR .835.

 

My big guy:


Anonymous. Circa 225-217 BC. Æ Aes Grave As (63mm, 266.40 g, 12h). Libral standard. Rome mint. Head of bearded Janus; – (mark of value) below; all on a raised disk / Prow of galley right; | (mark of value) above; all on a raised disk. Crawford 35/1; Thurlow & Vecchi 51; Haeberlin pl. 10, 1-16, 4; HN Italy 337; Sydenham 71; Kestner 111-5; BMCRR Rome (Aes Grave) 1-16.

 

Gentlemen.

 

LOL, These come up all the time... but who POSSESSES one in their collection?

I would love to see the Abfil tray or the Saflip for this one.

 

From the British Museum:

 

This one:

 

Really nice dragon there, like the Chinese coins from around 1900 AD. Here is a medal from Japan, huge, 111.86 grams, 59mm D. 3rd place winner in kendo match, Heisei year 13, (AD2001). Appears to be solid copper, lanyard ring cropped out. Zeno #331707.

 

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