These are neat. As to your chosen title, you made me do it... [MEDIA]
I just won this 1977 Canadian $100, which was struck for the 25th anniversary of the Queen’s reign (so it’s a gold coin struck for the silver...
It is a Celtic quarter-stater of Cunobelin. The horse was a common motif on Celtic gold.
This is a "Pillar dollar". [IMG] Your 8-reales piece is technically of the later portrait type (though it does have pillars on it, of course)....
I'm jealous. Awesome coin. I bid on one a while back and got totally crushed by the competition.
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Similar sentimentality made me slab this one. (We lived in Tanzania in '72 and one of these would buy a model airplane kit, as I recall. I'd get...
Your musings are about as good as anything as I'd come up with. I agree that the coin in Post #11 is likely Papal States.
I like FM Bahamian coins. Bahamian coins in general, as I actually spent some as a kid when we were island-hopping in the Bahamas. We lived on a...
And I wasn't aware until just now that "prutot" was the plural form of "prutah", though I've seen both words before. :)
I had to dig around a while, @Mountain Man, but I found my old pix of your Roman coin. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
Could be. A lot of places in the West Indies at the time had their local coinages which consisted of countermarked and/or cut-down coins only....
Hmm... I dunno. But if the EB counterstamp had made it into a "problem" coin, I'd happily have accepted the "details" grade. I need more...
As you can imagine, we Americans get a lot less Classical history in school. In fact, other than Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, which I was forced...
Was there a countermark other than Brasher's on the piece? Because on certain issues, the countermarks change the identity of the coin from its...
That nice broad flan and nearly full circles of beading on the Caracalla is awesome.
It is definitely damaged, though I don't know exactly what's going on there. Something, likely something acidic, ate away at the copper-nickel...
I don't know the answer to your questions, but the Brasher countermarks on foreign gold coins are pretty interesting. A 1766 guinea with a...
Oh, if this were a real Washington funeral medal, I wouldn't have casually given it away! LOL It is definitely a mid-20th century thing.
Almost everyone feels intimidated by ancients at first. I know I did, which is the main reason I took them up relatively late, more than 30 years...
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