What a stunning bit of historical arcana! It's heart-warming to see that some folks have the time and intellect to pursue such lightly traveled...
1948 English George VI penny: glued reverse [ATTACH][ATTACH] "I also have a couple older British pennies that were sloppily glued into an...
Iron Coin Tree: Details [ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] Hard for me to get decent oblique lighting on these...the sun has gone away again....
I had the idea they were woodcuts...but it's of no particular significance: they're magnificent, and do so much to intensify the text. Genius on...
Dante Alighieri high relief plaque [ATTACH][ATTACH] I'm at risk here, as I don't know this piece qualifies as Exonumia. If not, my apology, and...
Great...Now I gotta learn to spot a doubled die! Obverse or reverse? What mint? Where does the condition show most obviously? Thanks, though...
Very good...this answers pretty well the question I just posted in a new thread. Makes sense and will ease the labor. Thanks a lot!
[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] Dad gave me this bank 18 months ago. He stated as written on the end. It was absolutely full of US pennies; 70...
[ATTACH][ATTACH] [ATTACH][ATTACH] These two coins (Iron & Bronze) were packed with the tree...significance unknown. Sorry about the...
[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] About 25" long OA. Yep, I should post close-ups of an obverse and reverse, not that there's much...
Your assumption is apparently that the cleaning, in order to successfully 'expose' the D on the 1916 dime, or another indicator of high value,...
Braggart!
Agreed, without question. When the crud and filth obscure identification, seeking higher opinion is a given. Thanks.
Many of the coins I come across are so filthy as to leave soil on fingers, as well as paper surfaces used to back up photos. What solvent...
If that is lacquer (even though it's been there for some while) it ought, IMHO, to be allowed to dissolve in an appropriate solvent...chosen to...
[ATTACH][ATTACH] 27.6mm; 11.0gr I used 'large' in the title with awareness that there are 'larger' cents out there. It looks in places like...
[ATTACH][ATTACH] 29mm; 8.2gr Such a small territory leads me to hope for low mintage.
[ATTACH][ATTACH] 27.9~mm; 11.0gm Looks to have some silver content; is that 'B' a mint-mark? Wilhelm 5th? Properly German or Prussian?...
[ATTACH][ATTACH] 29.5mm; 7.4gm [ATTACH][ATTACH] 28.5mm; 7.1gm Too many oddities to list, from the obvious size and weight to several...
[ATTACH][ATTACH] 26mm; 7.7gm Needs a bath.
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