Actually an excellent example of what can happen with hammered coinage.
I have one that they put out in the '80's that is a reissue of a NJ state banknote from the 1850's. I think I paid about $15 for it.
As a collector honest wear does not bother me. It is an indication that many, many people great and humble, used a coin for what coins were...
Where on this coin is the actual date? Does it include the AH or is it just a number?
How much circulation did these pieces have back then? The reason I ask is that I have one of these coins with what appears to be considerable...
I have a number of these coins. I make it a point to purchase only those with considerable wear and especially ones that are holed. Why? I like...
I'd buy the one on the right and pass on the one on the left.
I must admit I had never heard of the Luwians (neither apparently has spell check). Is their language known to be a variant of early Greek? I had...
It depends on the problem. One of my collecting interests is the coinage of the colonial and early federal period in US History when foreign coins...
Non Omnia Punica delenda est.
Grazie mille.
I have lived more than 70 years in the US and that in a highly urbanized region and for the last 40 years less than ten miles form what is...
Thanks. That's quite a list.
I tried that site but he does not presently have any.
Thank you for that information.
I am looking to pick up a Civil War soldier dog tag" ID disc. Can you be of assistance?
I like to collect items associated with the US Civil War. One item I have read about is the use of privately minted ID discs resembling coins or...
Polish volunteer squadron, battle of Britain, 1940?
Read again what I wrote. The federal reserve notes of the 1930's were NOT fiat money as they were convertible to specie in silver at home and gold...
There is none, for the reason I wrote above. No modern state's government will submit itself to the discipline of limiting its spending ability by...
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