Actually I like the earlier 200 reis nickel series. I think these ran from 1871 to 1900. My son picked up a worn 1871 for around $14 during the...
Collect nice foreign coins instead. You can go to a major show and not find a single piece, not at any price. I go to these local coin shows and...
While no expert on Brazilian coins, the Moedas Brasileiras catalog, 2015, lists the 1822 20 reis as a "falsas da epocha". I think this means a...
Actually as results from 2017 NYINCS come in I've seen a lot of very inferior pieces (Tortoises) bringing good sums. Your coin is very...
You can use an image editor like Corel Photopaint or Adobe to clip out those parts you want to move. Then move those objects on the top of a...
Just returned from Brazil, I can try to find the original CNG listing but I don't have the coin yet so I can't photo it. As soon as I get it,...
I have one fourree; bought early last year [2016] from CNG. It's of your avatar: a Lydian double silver siglos. I've been in Brazil so I haven't...
Could be a fourree, can you post a better pix? As far as the surface corrosion do you have any guess as to the composition? Is it copper,...
How nice were they? $2,000 sounds like a lot of money. I only paid $1,400 for mine out of Stack's, NYINCS, 8 Jan 2016, lot# 30074 ($1,645 w/...
Collect foreign coins instead: it lessens but may not completely eliminate the problem. I can go to a foreign coin show and find not one new...
Well fortunately Kunker is a very reliable firm. I have no doubt that if further tests show that the coin may be non-ancient, they'll have no...
Even "Deacon Ray" has a certain ring to it [no pun intended] that "Ancient Coin Ministry" doesn't. Make sure that people can look up who the real...
Well technically if you make these certificates, then you're establishing paperwork or a Provinance for those coins that you do sell. It might be...
There's a trend for pieces made by Ptolemy II to be mis-attributed to Ptolemy III. This nearly happened with my coin. I wish I could remember...
Thanks for the info. The typical large Ptolemaic bronzes are around 40 g so a 65 g specimen is unusual. Interesting that it's id'd as an...
Actually 10 years ago I had someone contact me on my website [Coinsandhistory] with the same request. Eventually I had them buy a coin from...
I'm very confused. You said it was an ounce but the coin itself says 2 pounds. That's 29.167 troy ounces.
Excellent coin Eduard. This is a coin I've always wanted to own and perhaps one of the reasons why I no collect US. Historically significant US...
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