Personally i don't think one side is enough, i'd like all three sides as bold statements of nationalism! It's probably the reason why i can't...
Sylvester's words of wisdom; :) 'You can collect and invest at the same time, but you're a good un if you can succeed at both simulanteously....
I think they do generally treat it as damage, it could be harder thoughbecause of that fact. They might think they have no collector value so they...
Don't feel too bad about dipping it, from the sounds of it, it kinda needed it. Tacky is never good! :D
I hope you bought a wheelbarrow to cart it around in! ;)
The problem as i see it GD is that it limits the freedom of the nations alot. Take Ireland, they had a choice of what to go with, animals on the...
I picked that one up fairly cheaply, i hung onto it for a year or two and then i sold it. Part of me wishes i'd hung onto it actually. It used to...
Yep i sure do... Except i don't have a decent picture of it anymore that i can find, there's a really bad one here......
The euro kinda wrecked that didn't it GD? Hard to stand up and say 'look at me'... actually we're the same as next door!
As a circulated coin collector i guess i'm siding with Satootoko here.
Maybe it was further uniformity? They'd had all the mintmarks moved to the obverse to make it uniform, thus i suppose making them all have...
With other coins like those of William II or Henry IV it's not so much finding a well struck example but actually finding an exaple at all. Or...
I dunno how GD does it, but my methodoligical approach to hammered was to find a picture (or even look at a specimen in a museum) in the best...
I can grade some early medieval coins as well as the later one. But i haven't finetuned my grading of these yet so i sometimes overgrade or...
Yep i've had wrong obverse and wrong edge lettering... Either for the date, or the reverse. So everything that could be wrong was wrong, i...
I want another, but next time Henry V.
I think coins are too bland personally, i like really intricate coins, the more details the better. As an example of the kind of stuff i...
I can spot a fake £1 coin a mile off, it's all in the strike and the colour. I used to get them regularly.
Wow sounds like you done a sweep across the whole board there Michael, and you're right about the teaching being different, i noticed that....
Hey but i got an error 405 though rather than the usual 401! :D I wonder if he linked from a subscribed area?
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