Planchet= coin blank. Planchette= Ouija board doohickey (as mentioned).
Exactly. The point is that (like this necro thread), it’s old news that nobody cares much about anymore. (Now watch me be wrong- LOL).
And trying to start an argument in a nearly six-year-old thread doesn’t make you look a whole lot better. ;) It’s kind of like lobbying for or...
Adopt me into your family. I promise to be suitably stirred. ;)
Wow!!!
It so happens that he periodically sends me some to redistribute (even though he covers his tracks well and to this day, I do not know who he is)....
Yeah, I wouldn’t have wanted to be a mint official under Caligula OR Stalin. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yep, the business strikes are definitely shiny. But not reflective in the same way a proof would be.
Yes, it is. But as I mentioned in the thread about it, the rim ding one (which I sold to @edteach), was just dinged a little too hard for me to...
No, I wasn’t really thinking of it that way, so much as whether or not I made the right decision to go with this new purchase, versus the coin I...
Looks very familiar. ;) So that’s the one I bought but opted not to keep, due to rim damage (the one heavy hit at 6:00.) You can see how much...
This is the Julius Caesar coin from my first Twelve Caesars collection, completed a decade ago. It was a bit of an ugly duckling- VG with...
New addition to the Giveaway Gallery. (Click the next link for more pics.) Jersey: 1933 bronze 1/12 shilling of George V (PCGS AU55) [IMG]...
Both rescues, but no relation to each other. I do like Tuxedo cats.
Greetings, Meow. Welcome back. Elvis and Bojangles were just looking out the window, wondering when you would show up again... :cat: (Or maybe...
I'll move this thread to World Coins.
No, it doesn't look even remotely like a proof. It's plain to see that this one is a standard business strike. A proof would have much more...
I don’t disagree, from a design standpoint, but they’re from two entirely different eras, a century apart. And the older coin doesn’t contain an...
Those are surely impressive. This is a mere 50-soles,but still has 2/3 an ounce of gold…
Family lore had it that my maternal grandmother owned a silver candlestick that had belonged to William Bradford. Given how well-to-do she was,...
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