Recent Content by Paul Chouan

  1. Paul Chouan
    Post

    More of my interesting recent pickups

    What can you tell me about that awful copy of a 1951 Canadian commemorative nickel?
    Post by: Paul Chouan, Feb 22, 2023 in forum: World Coins
  2. Paul Chouan
    Post

    More of my interesting recent pickups

    What can you tell me about that awful copy of a 1951 Canadian commemorative nickel?
    Post by: Paul Chouan, Feb 22, 2023 in forum: World Coins
  3. Paul Chouan
    Post

    What causes copper coins to become black and Porous

    I used to own some copper ancients that turned black, perhaps centuries ago, and I got rid of them all - I couldn't stand peering at them under...
    Post by: Paul Chouan, Apr 23, 2021 in forum: Coin Chat
  4. Paul Chouan
    Post

    Box of mystery (Hard to identify world coins)

    I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying this thread! It's a great thing to bring these coins back from the dead, as it were, by attributing them...
    Post by: Paul Chouan, Apr 23, 2021 in forum: World Coins
  5. Paul Chouan
    Post

    Straits Settlements 1 cents

    Canadian coins, for example, bore an obverse legend including the abbreviated words "Et. Ind. Imp" -- "and Emperor of India". That is apparently...
    Post by: Paul Chouan, Apr 23, 2021 in forum: World Coins
  6. Paul Chouan
    Thread

    Crypto-Collecting

    On another recent thread, dougsmit wrote: “Perhaps the hobby is headed to a place where people interested in studying the coins will populate...
    Thread by: Paul Chouan, Apr 23, 2021, 5 replies, in forum: Coin Chat
  7. Paul Chouan
    Post

    My First Real Slab - Severus Alexander Sestertius in NGC Plastic - VG "Polished"

    Why, I do believe this is what lordmarcovan would term a CircCam, or Circulation Cameo. It's a beautiful VG or F, too.
    Post by: Paul Chouan, Apr 23, 2021 in forum: Ancient Coins
  8. Paul Chouan
    Post

    Proof of principle: removing iron oxides from silver coins

    You achieved a stunning result there--congratulations!
    Post by: Paul Chouan, Apr 23, 2021 in forum: Ancient Coins
  9. Paul Chouan
    Post

    Joke of the NIGHT !! LOL

    I'm showing signs of honest wear myself.
    Post by: Paul Chouan, Apr 22, 2021 in forum: US Coins Forum
  10. Paul Chouan
    Post

    Do you think well circulated coins have more history?

    One of my collecting projects is to put together 'condition sets' of certain inexpensive but well-designed type coins, such as the Portuguese...
    Post by: Paul Chouan, Mar 22, 2021 in forum: Coin Chat
  11. Paul Chouan
    Post

    Do you think well circulated coins have more history?

    Shakespeare's Autolycus described himself as 'a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles'. That pretty much describes my glee when I pick some...
    Post by: Paul Chouan, Mar 22, 2021 in forum: Coin Chat
  12. Paul Chouan
    Post

    Do you think well circulated coins have more history?

    I have a worn shilling of Elizabeth I. It may have passed through Shakespeare's hands, or not. But if it spent part of its working life in London,...
    Post by: Paul Chouan, Mar 22, 2021 in forum: Coin Chat