In Britain the general coin market is fairly strong, prices, especially for earlier and better quality coins are on the rise, and have been for...
Do not forget the Adopengo.
It appears to have gold control marks on the reverse.
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Hibernia was simply a name for Ireland in the latin used on coins. I expect there were stacks of English small change as well, but now there...
George was King of the American colonies and British coins were shipped out to circulate.
Not on the type of formal document mentioned. I assume they are made by pouring wax into a negative mould, including the ribbon so the ribbon is...
You'd find such a seal on the bottom of a grant of letters patent such as an elevation to the nobility, possibly a grant of arms, typically for...
Add up the weight and if the total for the lot is well below the silver spot value it is quite possibly a fraud, the cheaper the silver, the more...
It's safer than putting water into the acid. No harm in it with other acids , but only sulphuric acid, highly concentrated, has a violent...
Good point, well made :-)
It is unfortunate that the putative fake has such a bad picture.
It amuses me to see US and Russian generals with so many rows of fruit salad you almost expect a sign saying "Continued on the next general".
I see a lot of 18th. C. stuff. Quality of production in Europe was well up to modern standards. Better, in terms of design,I'd say. Just because a...
Looks like a 'period' piece to me. There is enough about it to make 'modern fantasy' a bit of a facile dismissal without citing any evidence,...
Your pictures are really pretty poor, but there were quite a few Churchill commemoratives. None of these items are coins. For comparables seach...
It looks like a well worn dime worth scrap value. What sort of an error do you think it is?
It's an odd thing but Channel Islands coins are not at all popular with British collectors, so the early low mintage issues are not uncommon and...
I think we should admit there's a huge potential for monetary gain for doing so For modern coins the gain would be trivial, in money, even...
On the balance of probability, I think it is far more likely that numerous countries did make coinage of the specified composition, than they did...
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