I did get some catalogs from Heritage. Some platinum night things but nothing about any Cape Coral Collection. When is the sale? While I love...
Thanks very much. Maybe they'll have some multiple talers there?
Startling new information on the above plague taler. The snake shown is Nehushtan (Hebrew) the derogatory name given to the bronze or brass...
They always say to buy the book 1st which I never did. I was always worried that the coins I was chasing would rise in price too fast and if I...
Yes I know what you mean. Recently I've also tried to buy some USA coins which I'd given up collecting 20 years ago in order to collect certain...
I'm always interested in threads trying to predict the future of coin collecting and have followed many threads on this site for that. I can...
I'm going to definitely change the background of my late Roman page to this after your comment. Painted in 1883 yet so classical it's called "The...
Stone the Blasphmemer!!!! I love late Roman. Normally I like variety and I'll admit that late Roman coinage is somewhat more uniform as they were...
And a taler for today's times... 1528 Bohemian Plague (Pest) Taler [ATTACH] Erzgebirge. "Pest" Taler 1528, Joachimsthal mint, engraved by...
Wow that is really a good deal. I dimly recall paying nearly $ 1,200 for a common circulated Venetian ducatoon issued around the 1790's. That...
Now that is a beautiful scene. One day I'll try to get some more talers but I imagine this one is quite expensive?
So it's an electrotype? or at least some sort of cast? Sorry to hear that, multiple talers are very hard to come by. From memory, none of my...
When I was very young I used some of my coins (Morgan dollars & Franklin halves) to make tin foil molds from which I used to make wafers of...
Thanks Panzerman. Actually you should've name the Rottweiler "Sleipnir" as that was the name of a creature. Maybe "Odin", if small enough,...
Who buys the initial cards though? This one was autographed so it apparently was some sort of special release. Do kids come up to Mr. Trout...
The Football case is better documented. Even before covid the NFL has had declining ticket audiences. "But fans are now less inclined to go to...
"Coin dealers are speculating that the new buyers aren't interested in numismatics, at all, and they may sell off that portion of the business....
Wow, what an amazing assortment. My favorite is the Regnum Francorum/ Merovingian coin. Like many others I've developed a morbid fascination for...
A really stunning LIMA halfcrown and a nice writeup. While not an expert in coin grading of these it appears to fall well within the ms category....
I was a little high: I guessed 67. Still a very pretty coin. The "supposed scratches on the cheek", that others have written about, appear to be...
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