Thank you for that detailed information, @cmezner. I did know about the tughra and how to read Arabic dates, although I admit I cannot read the...
Thanks! I hadn't thought of consulting that source. I'm looking for other examples online. @coin_nut posted on another thread about zeno.ru, and...
I recently cherrypicked this 1255/8 (1846) Ottoman Empire 20 Kurush large inscription on eBay. There are two varieties of this coin - small and...
I haven't tried uCoin or other alternatives, but Numista does have extensive coverage, and the coin type pages have recent auction prices and...
I use Numista. I've never swapped there but am open to it. I've gotten several swap requests, but they've all been from people wanting silver for...
FUN sounds amazing, but I don't know how to justify the expense of travel just for the coins. I'm not buying the super-high-end stuff! But wife...
Thanks! I'm really starved for a meatspace coin shopping experience where I am (Upper Valley), so I'd been looking forward to this show for...
Today was the second day of the New Hampshire Coin and Currency Expo in Manchester. I drove the hour and a half down from the wilds of northern...
Well, I finally went and splurged on a coin. I had to have the reckoning with the wife as the invoice of 75 EUR was visible on the outside of the...
Greenland 1926 50 ore [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
If it is cleaned, it won't be worthless, but depending on how disfiguring the cleaning is, the value could be reduced by 30-60% or more compared...
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You're right; my answer was referring to Numismatik Naumann, not speaking for all the houses listed on Sixbid.
^ The exception would be bullionlike coins with no fixed denomination in terms of subsidiary coins like the late-Roman aureus, which Porteous...
It works like eBay.
This might be the best I've ever seen, at least in terms of strike!
Ah, of course, Marianne! I like her as "La Semeuse," the sower. [ATTACH] I am not as big a fan of her depiction on the Great Seal of France,...
What are your favorite representations of Lady Liberty on coins? There are many outstanding examples from the Americas, Liberia, and the...
I *also* got this 1888 version of the same denomination (Brazil 2000 reis). But this coin is larger (37mm) and features the last emperor of...
My wife and daughter are visiting family, and I've been spending my evenings skimming all the auction sites and placing bids here and there where...
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