... and Queen Anne has a certain charm in this 1709 Shilling.
Young Victoria Here are a few more young-head Victorias, where I think she can qualify as pretty. The mature heads are impressive as coins, but...
3 x Marianne plus 1 Ceres Here are 3 different versions of Marianne. I've posted the 1905 20 Franc piece before, but still think it one of the...
Whether she qualifies as beautiful or not, only the observer can decide, but Fanny Janauschek, the Czech actress who posed as "Francofurtia" for...
Isn't Mercury at least theoretically a male figure?
Whats going on here? If its a coin, lets see it. Have the thought police taken over?
My guess would be fine, perhaps very fine at a stretch, but for 499 years old I think it's in great shape!
1613 Saxon Thaler A nice Saxon Thaler, 1613, 42 mm, 29 g
Here's the only thing I can contribute that hasn't already been shown. One of the last Soviet commemoratives, and (for me) a really handsome coin.
It always helps if you can tell us something about weight and size. In the following, I number the coins from left to right, A = top row, B =...
"If you are interested in Mexico's numismatic history, check this site out: http://www.banxico.org.mx/billetes-y...66E166A}.pdf" nice...
Here's where Mexico realized it was a little illogical for a republic to keep on minting "Reales" and switched over to the peso. Sometime between...
... and then for sentimentalists, here's the 2 Florin piece for Franz-Josef and Sissi's silver wedding anniversary.
OK, here are a few of my most recent puchases. I (like many members here) have a real weakness for the Habsburgs, who issued some of the best...
Right you are! I looked through the various rulers, of which Mohammed al-Nasir Bey was ruling in 1921, but didn't know to look further for...
No, I take it back, the smallest is this quarter Kopeck from 1886. 13 mm.
My smallest is this Hungarian Dinar from 1550. 15mm.
Today I got a lot of French colonial coins which I've been cataloging. But this one isn't in the Standard Catalog. Now I'm familiar with...
I don't know anything about your camera, but will accept gbroke's assurances it will do the job. Does the camera have a supermacro focus,...
Near as I can make out it looks like MOTTΛ INC, with the lambda (poorly struck A?) bigger than the other letters. This makes no sense to me, but...
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