Mike is right there, but occasionally you will come across someone awkward like me that likes small to medium silver coins from the 17th/18th...
Wouldn't it be more profitable to say grow potatoes or something rather than going out shooting all the deer? Self suffiency from what you can...
I'd say my English Anglo-Saxon penny of King Athelstan struck in around 930 AD.
A few moderate changes here and there but generally; 1) English silver pennies by monarch, focusing on the 10th century. 2) Henry VI...
Not if they are those smooth top, or smoothed bottomed ones you can get! Then again you could just sand off the bobbles.
I've wasted my whole life! :D This is fantastic. I used and occasional still make tall towers with them, just pick something like pennies and...
I tell you guys, i'm loving finding these coins. There's another one on the horizon that i'm trying to get my hands one. I need 9 coins for the...
I've also got a 1928-P reserved till the end of July. I though it best to start with the tough cookies first. The $10 indian is what i'm really...
I must admit that whilst this might not be my fave design of this particular denomination, it certainly has something about it; For my 1920s (P...
This arrived the other day, for those that haven't seen it yet. English Anglo-Saxon two line type silver penny of Edward the Elder (899-924),...
To be honest i'd have to hold up my hands and admit i'd rather take the clad. Dunno why maybe it's because i'm interested in the history of the...
There are a few coins i could post but if it's got to be my best coin then i'd have to root for the one below; I started collecting coins...
I don't know about you but i think i'm getting a bit excited here with anticipation. I'd love to be able to have a stash of coins somewhere that...
A cashless society killing numismatics? Well personally having never collected from change i'd beg to differ. I think there will still be lots...
I wish the mints didn't care about the collector. There's too much hyped up trash out there that's never gonna see circulation. It might come...
Funny that, my cut off date was also the George III recoinage, except i was working up to 1816, i very rarely went beyond the 1816 line. I at...
Avoid medieval gold like the plague then... if you get onto that stuff, you're doomed. Or your bank is. And even some of that is cheaper than alot...
I've collected gold on and off, but i still seem to buy more silver overall though! So the gold bug must not have got me quite as strong. It's...
It was Chards, i dunno who's got it now exactly. I know GD could have had it. And i also know the picture has turned up as an avatar on forums...
Yes mahogany... other woods are unsuitable. Mahogany from a renewable source at that! (Wouldn't have it any other way), i do love mahogany though!
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