A further refinement on your theory; in these hard times, with workers losing defined pensions and health insurance, etc., etc., skyrocketing...
What about the metal? Unquestionably silver, or copper/brass? The patterns that I mentioned are big bucks. From the size, it's definitely a 20...
Does the EPA know about all this unruly mud?! Are they, um, tracking it?
The U.S. is one of the very few nations that has had a stable coinage for 150+ years. In theory, you could still get Civil War era coins in...
Here is where the Rio de la Plata runs into the ocean, looking easterly; Argentina on the right, Uruguay on the left, mud in the middle: [ATTACH]
A kind acknowledgment. It's no secret, I'm not very sympathetic to roll hunters; on the other hand, it's an almost-free country, so full speed...
China, Kwangtung Province, Year 18 (1929), Y-426, but "possibly" a pattern of a higher denomination. Always give diameter in mm when asking for a...
Thanks. I should have explained a bit better. I was interested to know if many silver coins circulated among the masses, or whether the "poor,"...
Any idea how your Vitellius compares with the average workingman's daily wages at the time of issue? A very short reign in A.D. 69...
Wonder who can show the oldest Love Token, although they might be making fakes in China right now. My entry's an 1839 dime. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Not having paid much attention to these in the past, do all of them have the little extra "tail" on the Q in Republique that your coin has??...
I think, statistically, there's NO good sample size, and that it's impossible to "nail down" anything, and that the usefulness to roll hunters is...
I'd be happy if I could just see images of the various doubled-die obverses and struck-over mint marks about ten times larger than they appear in...
For anyone of Swedish descent, look up Jenny Nyström, 1854-1946, and you will find a superb artist and illustrator. She designed and painted...
If you do a lot of cropping, it means your image area was too big to start with; this is more true of scanners than cameras, and more true for...
I don't have time to read all this, but here's a LOT of data on official and unofficial Bush inaugural medals:...
Agree 100% with Kirkuleez. The California fractional gold are written up in the Redbook, but doubt if that will help you much. These pieces are...
I'd rather be able to show a guest a coin like that (and discuss it intelligently) than a hundred slabbed gold and silver eagles...
I take a coin in a 2x2 or a slab, and clip it to the copy stand, then go outside and position everything just inside a tree/building shadow on a...
I don't know if this will help at all, but here's $5.00 (!) worth of stuff I use when I want something other than a scan; an old copy stand from...
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