PS Value I would guess is around $10 or so
During WWII, fAustralian silver coins (3d, 6d, 1/- and 2/- were minted in Denver and San Francisco. In 1942, Melbourne minted only 528,000 of...
The 1869 is a rare coin but not in the same league as the 1869 penny. The die number on this 6d is No. 9, but I don't know if that makes it...
Absolutely wonderful, splendid coins. I wasn't aware of their existence, but that's no so surprising really. I collect French coins but in...
Sorry, I must have been daydreaming. Those dates for the two Js were during the reign of Carlos III. They carried on their good work from 1789 -...
NR = Nuevo Reino de Granada, modern day Bogotá, JJ =Juan Rodríguez Uzquiano and Juan José Truxillo y Mutienx, mint master and assayer from 1780...
My source of info on ancient trading with India (and further East): The Boundless Sea, a Human History of the Oceans , by David Abulafia,...
I'm fairly sure that it is meant to be a rhinoceros. From a couple of centuries BC, well into medieval times, Arab Persian, Egyptian and Jewish...
It is probably worth pointing out that many of those who work in London, from top professionals to junior clerks, live a long way out outside...
[ATTACH] I would say that your ha'penny is clearly Spinks 1540A, is similar to the one above. All the ha'pennies of Edward III's second coinage,...
The 1805 Carolus IIII coin is an 8 maravedis from the Segovia mint
I am not a collectors of ancient coins, though I have a few from finds, but those London prices seem VERY reasonable to me!
It is a pleasant enough piece, but as a coin collector I don't really consider items such as these as coins. They are never meant for use, they...
A gold tremissis of Sisebutus, king of Hispania and Septimania (the area in the bottom right-hand corner of south-east France, around Nimes). He...
According to Mary Beard (SPQR, p.280): "The standards [lost by Crassus] remained a proud piece of Parthian booty until the emperor Augustus, by...
Google il ducato di Milano moneta and you will get some very good pictures of trillina quattrino etc
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