Fascinating coin! Good job of altering an 1858 to make 1853.
Your 1803 cent is definitely a late-state S-263, as you first surmised. The shape of the visible 3 rules out S-264. All late-state S'263's have...
Steve, your pic is the 1806 C-03 from the Missouri Cabinet, lot 85, sold by the Goldbergs 26Jan 2014 for $32,200 (incl juice), graded Net F15...
Two of my Augustan pieces are noteworthy. First is one of Octavian's early propaganda-pieces. After finally succeeding in cajoling the Senate...
Your 1817 is a late-state N-10 (common). Mis-struck large cents are most common for 1795-1797, 1817, and 1826. I have pix of 25 mis-struck...
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Nice lamination. My favorite laminations from my own collection:
My only Herennius are sestertii, certainly not rare. 19.4gm, 21.7gm, 22.0gm. The heaviest sest I've seen of him was 23.7gm [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Since I only collect the larger bronze, I have only a single Diocletian -- a medallion of 24.2gm.[ATTACH]
Since I collect only Sestertii and larger Roman bronze, the family of Gallienus is a tough task. Valerian: 18.4gm. Father of Gallienus....
John, I *LOVE* the lustre on your no-rays shield nickel!
My only shield nickel is the one below -- the last coin I ever bought from a dear (now-deceased) friend in Kalamazoo. This went into my "US Coins...
Your CWT is absolutely FANTASTIC! I'd have leaped at the chance to buy that one. Only detriment: I'd love to see a better-focused image of that...
I only do the larger Roman bronzes. Here is a start of the project that you propose. Unfortunately, I ran out of tray-space at forty of them --...
How can you even guess a DATE from those images? Great movie!
Though the 1851/81 (inverted punch) US large cent costs slightly more, it is common. This coin does not appear to be the 51/81 (N-3) cent. All...
[ATTACH] Gordian III, AD 238-244. AE Sestertius struck on a medallic flan. RIC 297a, variant. Great post Al, and great pix. I have been...
The author post above is correct as it is.
Since I collect larger Roman portrait bronzes (sestertii and larger) Domitia is a truly tough nut to crack. I was extremely fortunate in 2007...
"Price" is a wide-open field. On one extreme is "Greed has no limit" and on the other is the cherrypicker's dream of buying for dirt-price. A...
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