Bump, to push this above the closed contests.
LordM Giveaway #94 (pick your prize) Contest status: CLOSED Drawing: (@masterswimmer won on behalf of his grandson) Shipping status: shipped 1...
I see no reason to doubt it. I bought from Biga once (a coin, not an artifact). That was when they were under a different name, which I'm trying...
It is time for the drawing. The lucky number was... 10! [ATTACH] Post #10 was by... @SensibleSal66 ! Coingratulations, Sal! I will message...
It is time for the drawing. Our lucky number was #34. [ATTACH] Post #34 was by me, on behalf of @Evan Saltis. As mentioned, I gave this bonus...
I agree that it looks more like toning than an improper alloy mix.
Your identification skills are enviable. I'd have probably guessed Roman Republic, but that is as far as I would have gotten.
It is time for the drawing. Our lucky number was... 30! [ATTACH] Post #30 was by... @Gamerzilla2012! Coingratulations, @Gamerzilla2012! You...
Expanded considerably, as it's a "Box of 144" as of tonight. Twelve dozen. I just got my first gross! And now 27 are gold or electrum. Which...
No S mintmark means it's not a San Francisco coin. That means it's not a proof. Proofs were only struck at San Francisco in 1981. If you're...
These are neat. As to your chosen title, you made me do it... [MEDIA]
I just won this 1977 Canadian $100, which was struck for the 25th anniversary of the Queen’s reign (so it’s a gold coin struck for the silver...
It is a Celtic quarter-stater of Cunobelin. The horse was a common motif on Celtic gold.
This is a "Pillar dollar". [IMG] Your 8-reales piece is technically of the later portrait type (though it does have pillars on it, of course)....
I'm jealous. Awesome coin. I bid on one a while back and got totally crushed by the competition.
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Similar sentimentality made me slab this one. (We lived in Tanzania in '72 and one of these would buy a model airplane kit, as I recall. I'd get...
Your musings are about as good as anything as I'd come up with. I agree that the coin in Post #11 is likely Papal States.
I like FM Bahamian coins. Bahamian coins in general, as I actually spent some as a kid when we were island-hopping in the Bahamas. We lived on a...
And I wasn't aware until just now that "prutot" was the plural form of "prutah", though I've seen both words before. :)
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