Jack, that is beautiful example of S-64. It is both interesting due to the missing fraction bar, and quite scarce as well. The feature is quite...
Hi Randy, thank you for your comments. I am sorry, I am afraid I do not understand your question. You ask about a bar above Lady Liberty's bust....
Among early large cents there are handful of varieties bearing some interesting errors in die engraving. Perhaps the better known varieties are...
Very nice! Excellent detail on that Braunschweiger Doppeltaler:) I have also just very recently added a Doppelthaler to my collection after few...
Agree, that is quite a scarce type. Nice addition, Andrew. (btw, I never tire of seeing your 'Eagle and Standards' denarius). Here are my...
About $10 back in 2000 out of a dealer's assorted silver box. (something like $20 in todays money). Sorry for the terrible pics. They are pretty...
VG8 on the 1846 and a nice, scarce coin as others have mentioned.
This one is not an 1808, S-278, (it is an S-277) but I would like to post it here as well as it is a very nice example (and the best preserved in...
I have just noticed that the HA description for the S-278 Marshall shows mentions that 'the centering is typical of early die states, with the...
I have also just renewed my supporter status. Long overdue....... This is one of the very best sites for numismatic discussions and exchange....
That is a nice example, with nice even tone. Do you know where it was struck? Or conversely, did James I strike his coinage at various mints (for...
The following link may be of interest, It is a forum dedicated primarily to the coins of England:...
This sestertius of Hadrian belongs in the EXERCITVS series which commemorates Hadrian's visit to the legions posted around the empire. In this...
Genuine, and it looks like it fell in the hands of someone who really had it in for Hadrian.
Yes, I think as well that axial misalignment (misaligned dies) is the most probable cause. As mentioned, of the 73 S-278's listed in the HA...
well, I resent that:).....actually I'll be all of 60 this year (so maybe you are right). I buy my U.S coins in Europe and over the years I have...
I don't know how you would grade them in the U.S but in Germany the 10 Pfennig coin would be graded as vz/stgl. This can mean anything from MS60...
Thank to everybody for your help.
Thank you for the update, TIF. I really appreciate you letting us know.
Thanks, Kentucky. I can't type in the grade since that is a drop-down box. (I just chose one from the drop down box). Nothing. Something funny...
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