I haven't checked this fact out yet but i've no reason to believe it's inaccurate. There was a dispute in 1152 over one of Louis VII's vassal...
The Greek version of Giacomo Casanova.
If you have 11 years experience then you should already know that nail polish remover is bad and that coins should not be scratched by finger nail...
Better still don't buy coins that you're not happy with. If it's got a scratch and it bothers you then let it pass by, other coins will come...
No i still don't know who Clark Smith is. I can tell you for a fact though that any coin dealer that tells you to use nail polish remover on a...
Concurring with Speedy 100%. Listen to him, and i truly mean it. I mean as far as i'm concerned you can clean your coins as much as you...
GCL you've put nail varnish remover on that already haven't you?
See it was on topic! :D
Why not go the whole hog and use aqua regia?
I was thinking the same as Peter. Hermes rules!
The most famous examples of restrikes are 1915 Austrian Ducats and Maria Theresa Thalers. The latter is perhaps the ultimate example of a restrike.
I don't have my references at hand immediately so i'll have to get back to you on this one. What i can tell you though is that hammered...
My fleur-de-lis is bigger than yours... ;)
It wasn't just that, that did it. The king was the only one in the country that had the right to coin money. True he gave rights to the...
The Henry VI groats you picture are actually 'English', yes they were minted in Calais (and yes i have one), but Calais was part of England, not...
Hmm fleur-de-lis no? [IMG]
I generally take a dim view of Christianity during this early period. It was when they were trying to stamp out paganism and by doing so the...
Oh by the way originally it wasn't an angel, originally it came with a dove. But someone thought a dove and an angel were both signs of divine...
But you have to take into account the fact that later historians were the ones writing this down, many of them were around at the time that the...
It surprised me too!
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