Ummm, I'm not sure if this has been done, or if it's even a sound idea, but I kinda thought that a combined thread of modern and ancients might be a cool idea? 1893 Dominion of Canada 25 Cent Piece AU55 => The Highest I've Seen (Bring-it, if you have better!!) Canadian 25 Cent Piece struck on One cent planchet Canadian 5 Cent Piece struck on foreign planchet Calabria Tarentum Caracalla AR Antoninianus Macedon, Mende AR Tritartemorion => PLEASE POST YOUR "3" SWEETEST MODERNS and YOUR "3" COOLEST ANCIENTS ... what could go wrong?
Well, I gotta go anyway => Happy Canada Day "Eve" Please post 'em, if you've got 'em ... I like you guys Cheers, coin-friends
Sounds great Steve, Here's a couple of mine.. 1881 California fractional quarter dollar PCGS ms 64 Marine Corps 2005 P PCGS MS70 Couple of Ancients... Byzantine Christ..976-1028..AD....Athens 449-413..BC.
I recently came across this respectable IHC for cheap... As far as ancients go, I can never pick a favorite. They're all my favorites, and I've over-posted them anyway, so I'll hang back and watch.
Lets take it a bit farther down the road to ridiculous. Each of my pairs share something in common with their partner. Can you tell what it is in each case? First pair: Second pair ('fakes' is not good enough): Third pair:
Connecticut 1785 1M-E, high R-3 or low R-4. Rare Mailed Bust Right This was the only use of the obverse die. This was the only use of the reverse die. Antoninus Pius AE Sestertius. 157-158 AD. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P IMP II, laureate head right / TR POT XXI COS IIII, S-C in ex, Roma seated left on cuirass, foot on helmet, holding Victory and parazonium; shield behind. RIC III 979a Strack 1147 Banti 490 BMC 2036 . 27.7 g
That is a good one but the intent was private issue coins made to fill a need for circulating coinage when the government was not able to meet the need. Rather the opposite. The quarter is a type 1 with bare breast while the Venus is showing more than the usual amount of backside. The first two are both nickel alloy coins.
How did I not see this thread until today? There is something in common with these two coins. They are both made of silver!
