I bought about five Vatican-related medals on my trip, mostly in Germany. The bronze one was purchased at an antique store in Copenhagen, I saw a...
Here's another of my acquisitions from my Europe trip: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] (nickel inserted for scale, its about 2 1/2 inches or so in diameter)....
This I bought from a coin dealer in Copenhagen who had a few medals. It is about 3 inches in diameter, and except for a rim ding or two, seems in...
Here are some more Russian ones, all ones I got from souvenir stands outside various tourist attractions in Saint Petersburg. The reverse of the...
[ATTACH] I'll post more later. I also have a photo of one of the vending machines, I attach it (it is in the Summer Garden in Saint Petersburg...
I bought a fair number of medals in Saint Petersburg, the Russians are big on medals Many tourist attractions had vending machines that dispensed...
Going to be posting some of the exonumia I bought on my annual Europe trip, just concluded. These I got at a flea market in Helsinki. If you...
Boycott who? I've probably never dealt with SilverTowne (possibly I bought some one-ouncers from them twenty years ago), and I suspect their...
That was being blogged before the NEVER AGAIN.
They also did some in pewter for the Young Numismatist program on Saturday, though I saw a dealer who had been given one on Thursday.
I believe that the ANA would have to have known in advance. The preparations of the dealers would have been considerable, from obtaining the...
Preregistration was available until July 15.
That's how I see it. Think of all those admissions of people who would not have come to the show (six buck a head times 2,500). Some bought...
Obviously it's all about the money ... the Mint's profit from 2,500 coins sold at about a 30 percent premium over melt may be calculated. If the...
Would anyone be willing to donate images of a Type II silver 3c for Wikipedia purposes? Mint state grade or pretty close, and untoned preferably,...
Thanks. It's also giving back to a hobby which has done a lot for me.
I'll be there Thursday and Friday. My first article for The Numismatist, "The Other Side of the Oregon Trail Half Dollar" won a minor award...
[ATTACH]Purchased today in Riga Latvia. The Aeroflot medal seems to be made of aluminum or similar light metal [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] And one more this I picked up in Tallin it is very large about 72 mm although I don't have a ruler with me sorry about the glare...
A few more I think the Kalashnikov metal is self-explanatory the top one is the decision-maker yes or no Moscow Subway St. Petersburg subway and...
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