Ike Skywalker, Those coins are beauties :jawdrop:! Thanks for sharing ;).
Over the weekend a fellow collector asked me where he could find a copy of Michel Prieur's book, & I suggested amazon.com until I took a peek at...
Doug Smith, the coin you illustrate & the point made about well worn coins is valid. Most of the early coins of Caracalla & the other members of...
Pellinore, Michel Prieur's collection must have been enormous :woot:. He was studying & collecting Syro-Phoenician silver when most of the...
Heavymetal, I don't blame you :cool:. I wish I could afford the best of the modern ones :(. Here are a few more I'd like to have :rolleyes:....
rooman9, You have an interesting specialty :D.
Jwt708, The 1st one is the only hobo nickel in my collection & I felt lucky to get my hands on it :smuggrin:.
Hobo nickels are coins that have had their designs modified with files, engraving, chasing, and carving tools. The most popular coins to work with...
Curtisimo, Nice score ;)! The portrait is excellent & the detail on the reverse is impressive, & to top it off the coin looks FDC :D.
Doug, Your variety of the MON VRB type is the most common, with Prieur citing 60 examples. I've sold a number of these & still have one in my...
As the late Michel Prieur's collection of Roman Provincial coins is being liquidated in stages I'm in awe at the immense size of his collection...
This Moruzzi system sounds like a lot of complicated BS to me with superfluous information added to it. I'll stick with NGC ;).
Thanks to everyone for the helpful info :D! Bradley Trotter & furryfrog02 set me in the right direction. Heritage had a number of similar coins in...
Thanks Joe kool :D. Who's that cute looking kid sitting next to you? A future coin collector I hope ;).....
I bought the coin pictured below at least 40 years ago at a coin show in Rochester, NY. I lost the coin when I moved about 5 years ago & found it...
Moda888, Your photos are awful :eek:! Please take better photos so Coin Talk members can see what they are looking at. What is the diameter and...
Despite being an American gold coin I'm posting this pendant in the World Coins forum because the mount was most likely made in Europe or by a...
PillarsOfEternity, That's a fine addition to your collection with a wonderful portrait of Gordian III. Many emperors used the FIDES MILITVM...
John, Thanks for sharing your experience :D. As a teenager I accumulated a nice hoard of civil war & hard times tokens for peanuts when few people...
dadams, Thanks for doing the computer graphic work :happy:, & thanks for your honesty in being duped in the Becker quiz :smuggrin:. The irony with...
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