Has a nice look. I like those old grey Morgans that did their time in commerce, just as much if not even more than the shiny Mint State...
Truly a sublime piece of music. And a nice coin! I like the eagles on those Frankfurt coins. Gives me goosebumps when the choir really gets...
Looks like a real Byzantine gold piece.
Try shooting the picture without Vaseline on your lens. ;) LOL. Kidding. But yeah, those pics are way too blurry. It is challenging to get the...
Aside from noting that I am now fanam-less, this thread got me to thinking, and wondering how many gold coins I have now. The answer? More than...
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This collection which started as a "Box of 20" ten years ago now has more than that number of just electrum and gold coins alone. (Now at 26, by...
"AU" = Almost Ugly. :rolleyes: It's still a North American Token, though, with plenty of visible detail.
You’d think there’d be no end of collectors willing to provide free cover art for the privilege of having their coins on the cover of a magazine....
I need another, now that you mention it…
Fanams are fun! :)
Aha. And then the person assembling the magazine cover just chose one. I begin to see how this could have happened.
Revisiting this old repost of an even older story of mine, and thought I'd shamelessly bump it back up into the sunlight for the 2020s, since it...
Speaking of Spanish maravedis coins found on islands... (The one I found is a 4-maravedis). [IMG]
This is the method I personally use. All of my better coins are professionally photographed, usually by the folks at PCGS or NGC, but...
@Randy Abercrombie - remind me later and I'll move this thread to the Memoriam forum. Not to hide it, but for posterity's sake.
Knew @Oldhoopster was sick. Did not know he'd left us. He was a good fella.
I think it's one of those series of medals put out as advertising promos in the 1950s or early '60s. Shell Oil did a Presidential series, but...
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