Here are some better photographs.
It's obvious from both sides of the coin that the flan was heavily filed before striking. If you look at the Scottish shield, the file marks are...
It's not harshly cleaned as far as I can tell, there are no hairline scratches visible under a 10x loup. The undamaged surface has a light grey...
VF-25, probably cleaned. Compare to...
High VF to low XF
I'm finding it difficult to calculate this coin's value, because it's got some erosion (from water?) on the obverse and haymarking on the reverse....
It was bought by my grandfather from Spinks in the late 1950s or early 1960s. I'm completely open to the idea that it isn't from the 2nd...
I was considering the possibility that it is a medal, rather than a coin. I can find nothing similar - all are the same type that you found - see...
Obverse legend: "ANTONINUS AUG PIUS PP TRI COS III IMP II" Reverse legend (in exergue): "[?]IC[P?][R?]AC[?]S" It seems to be a sestertius,...
Around $55 dollars for that piece in my opinion.
It looks like a real coin. The tone is a rather unpleasant grey, but the bubbles in the metal of this piece are not due to a casting process. In...
It escaped : they were experimental pieces which weren't supposed to be released, but in the end quite a few did.
I think so.
I think that looks like a MS-66/7, but the photographs aren't really clear enough to grade it that accurately.
It's really not in a high enough grade for it to be worth it getting TPGed.
I'm 100% with that. Nice old silver pieces are pretty scarce too.
Around $70, if it's nice and crisp. Could you post photographs ?
I wish I'd noticed that !
Maybe worth around $100 ? 1883-5 are only worth melt.
It's not a coin: perhaps some sort of token/memento created out of a coin ? The obverse looks hand engraved.
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