I had to dig around a while, @Mountain Man, but I found my old pix of your Roman coin. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
Could be. A lot of places in the West Indies at the time had their local coinages which consisted of countermarked and/or cut-down coins only....
Hmm... I dunno. But if the EB counterstamp had made it into a "problem" coin, I'd happily have accepted the "details" grade. I need more...
As you can imagine, we Americans get a lot less Classical history in school. In fact, other than Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, which I was forced...
Was there a countermark other than Brasher's on the piece? Because on certain issues, the countermarks change the identity of the coin from its...
That nice broad flan and nearly full circles of beading on the Caracalla is awesome.
It is definitely damaged, though I don't know exactly what's going on there. Something, likely something acidic, ate away at the copper-nickel...
I don't know the answer to your questions, but the Brasher countermarks on foreign gold coins are pretty interesting. A 1766 guinea with a...
Oh, if this were a real Washington funeral medal, I wouldn't have casually given it away! LOL It is definitely a mid-20th century thing.
Almost everyone feels intimidated by ancients at first. I know I did, which is the main reason I took them up relatively late, more than 30 years...
Has a nice look. I like those old grey Morgans that did their time in commerce, just as much if not even more than the shiny Mint State...
Truly a sublime piece of music. And a nice coin! I like the eagles on those Frankfurt coins. Gives me goosebumps when the choir really gets...
Looks like a real Byzantine gold piece.
Try shooting the picture without Vaseline on your lens. ;) LOL. Kidding. But yeah, those pics are way too blurry. It is challenging to get the...
Aside from noting that I am now fanam-less, this thread got me to thinking, and wondering how many gold coins I have now. The answer? More than...
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This collection which started as a "Box of 20" ten years ago now has more than that number of just electrum and gold coins alone. (Now at 26, by...
"AU" = Almost Ugly. :rolleyes: It's still a North American Token, though, with plenty of visible detail.
You’d think there’d be no end of collectors willing to provide free cover art for the privilege of having their coins on the cover of a magazine....
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