Wow. I am completely overwhelmed by the response! Thank you everyone for such great information and advice. I have a lot to sift through. I'll...
My first ancient. Hello, Probus. It was in a pile of Romans at a local coin shop and I liked that I could read the text and at least see some...
I think number 1 is the clear winner.
Though I could not agree more that one should never, or at least rarely, buy coins as an investment, no one wants to buy something and watch it...
I have dabbled in medieval hammered coins and also own a few shabby Roman coins. Recently, ancients have started to pull me in inexorably. I can't...
There were gold pound, and half pound, coins minted in the time of Elizabeth I (late 16th century). They are immensely beautiful things and...
At coin shows I sometimes see booths with jars overflowing with steel cents labeled "steel cents - 25 cents each." People hoarded this issue at...
Actually, it's the other way around: Kennedy did have a secretary named Lincoln (Evelyn Lincoln), bit Lincoln didn't have a secretary named...
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Augh! There is a show within driving distance!! Crew!! Lash me to the mast!!! Protect me from the harpies!!!!!
Very awesome! I love the depiction of the King's armored head! ...and who says Latin is a dead language? :D
One last thought, I swear this is the last one :rolleyes:, the airplane is probably just a play on the parlor's name, since the 747 is also known...
After thinking a little more, and this should have been obvious to me sooner, the katakana actually reads "Jumbo 7." The katakana alphabet is used...
Ah, sorry, I just noticed that you had already mentioned that above. I think that clinches it as a pachinko token for the parlor indicated. I'm...
Is the flip side of the token identical?
The characters are in katakana (one of the Japanese alphabets) and seem to read: シャンボセブン or roughly, "Shyanbosebun." When I look that up, I get a...
Yes, it is Japanese. I can't quite read some of the characters. I'll try again later.
I've never had anything valued at over $1,000 shipped without requiring a signature (unless I've explicitly told the shipper I didn't need it)....
This is true. Vcoins, though it does have US coins, contains mostly ancients and non-US coins. MA Shops, another massive online coin marketplace...
"The Complete Guide to Slab Varieties that You Should Care About. Really, you SHOULD care. Really! I mean it! You SHOULD care. Please? Won't you...
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