The true “pile-on” thread!

Very nice! Thank you, @Ken Dorney!!

 

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My want list just got an addition added to it.

 

Be advised that there are different versions of this medal. The earliest ones are the most expensive (kind of like first strike paduans vs. aftercasts). I have no idea how often they come up. Here is a better photo with the details:


Germany, Christian Wermuth, 1715 – 1739 AD
Silver Medal, 41mm, 22.51 grams

Obverse: CREDO · VNAM · ESSE · ECCLESIAM · SANCTAM · CATOLICAM, bust right, wearing camauro and canonical robes, IOA-HVS across field.

Reverse:CENTVM · REVOLVTIS · ANNIS · DEO · RESPONDEBITIS · ET · MIHI/ANNO · A · CHRIST · NA TO · 1415 · IO · HVS ·, figure of Jan Hus left, bound to and burned at stake, CON-DEM/NA-TVR · in two lines across field.

References:
Donebauer 3443ff

Cost:
About $300

Provenance:
Glenn Schinke, Santa Clara Coin Show, early 2000’s.

 

Some great LRB's @zumbly along with the drachms of ALexandria. That's quite a gathering of those coins.

 

Thanks. That particular lot and some others were my crash course in LRBs... fun times.

 

Nice!

The favourite from my collection is the double struck widow’s mite. The favourite from my bro’s collection is the Shekel of Tyre, it belonged to me for a few months before he bought it from me. He got a flipping sweet deal on it.

Erin

 

Ah, the goose that was cooked for defying a Pope. That is a great medal @Ken Dorney thank you for sharing it. The Hussites are such a fascinating group, I'll have to keep an eye out for that medal.

 

Looks like my purse

 

Goofing off while waiting for a CFD simulation to converge:



These are my rejects from a small hoard of late North Song 2 and 10-cash I bought.

 

If those are the rejects what are the keepers? So @TypeCoin971793, what's the word on that "Best66666" dealer of Chinese coins? I had seen some of his early hoe/spade coins with actual 3-D sockets and enormous 100-1,000 cash coins which look like awesome pieces, but my eyes aren't calibrated for Chinese cash and, well, we've seen the modern fakes of all descriptions being pumped through alibaba so I'm suspicious.

 

All fakes. Avoid like the plague!!!

Same types, just nicer

 

I searched this seller to look but it doesn't show anything. Do we have the correct ID? Can anyone send a link?

Also, for those who are interested there is a website out there which has a list of good and bad sellers on Ebay for Chinese coins. They also have a non-Ebay list, but for some reason I am not on there! I dont think the site is being kept up any longer.

http://chinesecoins.lyq.dk/

 

Here's his website: https://www.bestcoins666.com/

It seems that his eBay account is no longer registered, not sure if he has a new one: https://www.ebay.com/usr/best66666

 

Wow. I looked at some of his items, saw maybe a couple that might be real but everything else was terribly fake (I gave up looking after a couple minutes). That's a good place to see where one can look at what fakes are like. Good resource.

 

I got the coins I have (all common) from names on the good list several years ago when I was trying to get interested. At that time several offered groups that fit what I wanted at the time - a number of assorted different common cash in decent condition for a bulk price. Fully IDed coins at $1.69 and $3 postage were more specific than I wanted to start but 100 different F-VF (mostly Song) for $80 + $5 postage was more like it. It gave the opportunity to figure out things like script styles and gave exercise to the books I had then (pre Hartill). I only bought a few specific coins because the emperor meant something to me. I don't know if there are sellers who cater to beginners or not. In Roman, it is easier to find a seller with an Otho than a beginner lot of cleaned coins so it might just be the current state of the hobby.

 

please keep in mind I'm not the one who took these.
better to come