Thanks for the final update!
And I disagree that holing is the worst problem that could be present on a genuine coin. A holed coin that’s otherwise attractive is vastly...
There is no hard and fast formula. I personally tally a holed coin at around half the value of what an unholed example would cost, but that’s...
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Thank you, but I’ve sold this collection. I’m still working on a holey 19th century type set, but I have the copper-nickel Indian cent.
Oh, you’d better believe it!
Here’s the cert page, with the answer… https://www.pcgs.com/cert/46216374
More than a day’s wage for a soldier, so yeah, it would have bought you a good bit of wine. An amphora full, perhaps.
It sounds to me like you “get it”. That’s a huge reason so many of us are enraptured by ancient coins. And this one is very ancient indeed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_coinage# That article says a gold Daric was roughly the monthly wage for a soldier. So your silver...
So based on that info (thanks), it looks like @MaryContrary ’s coin dates between 424-338 BC. That’s pretty old, as coins go!
Good point. I guess quite a lot of them did.
It is indeed a bit “baggy”, but it’s also a silver dollar sized coin that’s pretty tough in higher grades.
Wow, that is indeed the most silvery looking Constantine I've seen.
Old? You bet it is. As the others have mentioned, you have a a silver siglos from the Achaemenid_Empire there. It would be nice if someone...
Just won this in a recent Stacks-Bowers auction. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Very intriguing! Alas, I haven't a clue. Neat piece, though.
@Evan Saltis - the coin is in my outgoing mail, to move tomorrow (Monday, 5/22).
I've not seen any fake ANACS slabs and nothing on that one waves immediate red flags at me, but you're right to be hypervigilant, considering what...
Yep, fun find. Not something you see very often in the context of US pocket change.
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