Very interesting indeed. A large number of these triangular horse pendants are dug up every year in the UK by metal detectorists. Just a small...
I didn't read that it had to be a US coin so I will stick my neck out and say that, taking coins from all over the world for the last 400 odd...
The bottom city is Stettin, the date looks as though it could be 1862
Another couple:
Some anti-Napoleon III coins:
(Hit the wrong button! ) ... 10 centimes, which were the same size as the British penny and roughly the same value, so it was often used and...
Pears Soap was a British family firm which became famous in the 19tnh Century for its sophisticated marketing, such as persuading well known...
My Diccionario de la Real Academia Española defines a tomin as (1) one third of an adarme, weighing 0.596 grams, and (2) a silver coin used in...
My "Guide Book and Catalogue of British and Commonwealth Coins", published in Winnipeg in 1971 makes no mentions of Indian proof coins.
I don't like to grade from photos, so all I can say is it seems to be a good example of a standard 1940 1/4 anna, Bombay mint, one of 164,240,770...
PS While it is a very useful tool, especially in areas where I am not an expert, I have come across errors in Numista more than once.
Glen Murray, author of two well documented books on the mints of Segovia and Madrid (among other works) says without any hesitation that 1/2...
The "marco castellano" was the standard weight for gold and silver, equivalent to 230 grams. A mint or casa de moneda would be supplied with x...
For the record, JB on this 1759 half escudo refers to the two “ensayadores”, (assayers, mint-masters) J for Joseph Tramullas y Ferrer and B for...
Venus Cloacina reminds me of a piece of late 19th century doggerel, said to have been written on the door of a toilet in an Oxford college: Fair...
Looks genuine to me. My 2016 copy of Spinks lists the 1834 2/6d at £475 for EF.
Just a small point, the " Unready" in Aethelred's name does not mean that he wasn't ready. The anglo-saxon unraed means "badly advised", while his...
I am reminded of the epithet that Tacitus wrote to describe the emperor Galba in AD 68 : capaz imperii, nisi imperasset - roughly, "he would have...
The 1923 South African sovereign is a very hard date to find. My British Commonwealth Coins lists a mintage of only 719 coins
Excellent article! Just one minor criticism, it's populace, not populous
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