Would you be sure to tell us how this case was resolved. Thanks
I own a small quantity of gold and silver in the form of bullion coins. I do not hold them to make a profit as an investment but to have them in...
No, but Southerners during the Civil War might have defaced US currency and coinage as support for secession in the same way that the Ancient...
I have never found older holed coins unattractive. Knowing that holing coins was a common practice for wearing them, not just as jewelry but, in a...
I know the Egyptian tetradrachmas passed as one denarius. But I thought the ones from Antioch passed at a higher value. In the early Third Century...
I generally see these coins as having a pretty rough surface. I am guessing that is because of their composition. Does anyone know what the silver...
Thanks for this info. I will try to find that book.
Can someone explain how these silver siliquae fit in to the circulation of the Fourth Century? Did they circulate as commonly as the old denarius...
Thank you. I will keep this mind.
I am aware of the existence of plated coins known as fourees. I have a couple in my collection. I understand some were made by official Roman...
Why would the US government melt down, and thereby destroy, wipe out, many millions of dollars in order to recover a few cents worth of...
Some of these emperors' coins were meant for military pay and stored in clay jars which were buried in times of trouble. Plenty of trouble in the...
A cob is not a denomination, but a way of striking a coin. So what you may have is a half Real. What is the weight? If it's about 26 grams it is a...
Try Eighth Century Byzantine, provincial mint such as Syracuse, a semis or tremis.
Thanks, Conder. I discovered this by accident when my work as a docent at a historical Revolutionary War tavern had me show visitors the price...
I do the same thing but most of the official releases are for specie coinage conversion, not the coppers, and the advertisements in newspapers for...
Yes, I understand that the NJ coppers were valued by the state at 15 to the shilling. Since in Britain it was 12 pence to the shilling this seems...
Thanks and you just may be right about that. I did some weighing of coppers from the period" two farthings from the late 1600's 4.9 and 5.3 grams,...
I have an abiding interest in coinage of the 1700's, both American, European and Latin American. Recently I was doing some study into the New...
I know this precisely. It was in 1957 and I was thirteen years old and I bought an 1865 three cent nickel at a stall in the Bristol (Pa. )...
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