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Dafydd liked Joshua Lemons's post in the thread Two New Type Coins.

It's not often I add US coins, but with my German States collection slowing down, for a variety of reasons, I've begun adding a few type...

Dafydd liked lordmarcovan's post in the thread My “5 for 1” swap deal with NEN (8/2026).

Recently I decided to get back into the US type set game, at least on the most basic level. For the past decade or so, my US coin...

Dafydd posted a new thread.

5 minutes handling gives 10 hours of pleasure: The Archdruid’s Copper

Get your minds out of the gutter—I am talking about a piece of struck copper. How long do you actually spend holding a new coin when it...

Forum: World Coins

Dafydd liked The Meat man's post in the thread "Guess the coin" challenge!.

Here's a close-up of the reverse of a newly acquired coin of mine. Can anyone correctly identify it? :pompous: [ATTACH]

Dafydd liked LakeEffect's post in the thread A Beautiful 1956 Proof Cent.

Lovely 60-year-old copper that's still red.

Dafydd replied to the thread A Beautiful 1956 Proof Cent.

Yay ! I’m 10 years younger than I thought I was !

Dafydd liked lordmarcovan's post in the thread United States (St. Louis, MO): 1850 copper merchant token, Fitzgibbon Daguerreotype Gallery.

Good question. I’m not sure. However, given that this piece and others from the 1850s were large cent sized, and many are in...

Dafydd liked johnmilton's post in the thread 1792 Half Disme Debate.

A book published about a decade ago, 1792: Birth of a Nation's Coinage, cleared this issue up. Jefferson had 75 Spanish Milled dollars...

Dafydd replied to the thread United States (St. Louis, MO): 1850 copper merchant token, Fitzgibbon Daguerreotype Gallery.

Fabulous token @lordmarcovan . Are they purely advertising? Tokens over here were used to supplement a shortage of coinage. I'm writing...

Dafydd liked lordmarcovan's post in the thread United States (St. Louis, MO): 1850 copper merchant token, Fitzgibbon Daguerreotype Gallery.

United States (St. Louis, MO): 1850 copper merchant token, Fitzgibbon Daguerreotype Gallery NGC MS64 BN. Cert. #4750640-004. This...