Bone, Interesting pics...did everyone see the price of a 1909S-vdb ?...$65...and wouldn't you know,my time machine is in the shop.
I only use Capital holders for my gold pieces and older proof sets,otherwise they're too expensive at about $4-5 each.I use the whitman-harris...
Here is the real thing for comparison purposes.Look closely at the top and bottom edges of the plastic!
Looks like the real thing to me.It might be similar to this one.Pius IV who was a Medici. http://www.salzburgcoins.at/Paepste/htm/PB11_PiusIV.htm
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Dumanyu, Yes,please post the pic when you can.I have no silver Ptolemy II but I do have one bronze with a really great portrait of Zeus. I believe...
YN...I like that too.When I first noticed the toning,I was upset but now I'm keeping my eye on this puppy,hoping it will turn completely orange....
Yes,they're all made in the winter/spring and come out in March/April with all 5 quarter designs as well as the other denominations.It's kind of...
Or vice versa.:smile
Very nice Bone!! I love the wartime nickels when they're in that kind of condition.They usually look like they've been run over by a truck.Here...
We seem to get a lot of visitors in here who wonder if their old coin has been cleaned.Show them this thread.That's what a coin from this time...
I have a question and a statement. Why does this ASE look UNC on the obv. and Proof on the rev? Is it just the light? I think Jessica Lynch was...
I try to fool myself into believing that my accumulation is a collection by putting labels on everything,or stuffing them into albums.There is...
WOW,can I have one of those?
I'd say it IS standard practice.I sent a coin to ANACS and paid for 5 day service except they don't count weekends,holidays,coin shows they HAD to...
I've been looking around the web and found a few interesting facts about Jacobean glass.There are numerous cases of "secret portraits" of Bonnie...
Bone, Is it a wine decanter or could it be for whiskey? Lots of listings for Scottish whiskey decanters with BPC on them
LOL Bone. Actually,all of these coins are way older than the time this hoard was buried.I think the article said 1000AD? and ours are 6-7th...
This is educational guys.Reminds me of the use of "America" over here.
Your other Carthiginian coin is from North Africa (modern day Tunisia) and this one from Carthage controlled Sicily..pretty cool.I have several...
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