The hairlines hold it away from perfection, and it never would have been a highly valuable coin in any event, but still, it's nice looking for a...
Cool fancy serial # on a CSA note.
Right. I was pointing out how they're collectible in their own right. Actually a pretty cool semi-numismatic sideline.
PS- guess what I just had for lunch. ;) PPS- cool piece. I'd never seen the type, much less heard of that particular republic.
OK. Once upon a time, a guy named Phillipe (or Gerard, I'm not sure which) was walking along a sidewalk in Guyanne Independante, when lo and...
I want this one for @BuffaloHunter, so there's an extra chance in the hat for him.
Ming coin? Not quite. But while metal detecting in North Carolina in 1994, I found a mysterious brass medallion with a Ming dynasty inscription,...
You FOUND an OTHO? I have only one word for that... WOW!
I've had a good December on the gift-receiving front. This from @Randy Abercrombie, our thread author... [IMG] [IMG] This from @kazuma78......
Those have been there all along.
Ahh... cherish it, my friend. Today is the one-year anniversary of my mother's passing. *sigh*
Where's the chipmunk coin? If it has that same photo of a chipmunk with its cheeks all pooched out, that's worth the price of admission right...
That's a nice vintage Lucite paperweight! I believe @H8_modern has some of this sort of stuff, if I remember correctly.
You just have to pay attention to the timeline (the date stamps below the posts) in some of these longer threads, is all. Sometimes the first...
To get us unstuck, I say let's have any coin with an elephant next.
Well, there is this, though it's not definitively a portrait of Hannibal and it's not my coin. (Sold for $46K in 2011.) [IMG] [IMG]
He did not know at the time he first posted this thread over two years ago, but he definitely does now! (Edit: well, as much as anybody does...
Now we come to... ROUND 5. The prize is another Roman antoninianus of the emperor Gallienus, struck between 260 and 268 AD. The reverse...
Time for the drawing for Round 4. Our lucky number was... 133! [ATTACH] And Post #133 was by... @ancient times ! Coingratulations, @ancient...
That Baseball piece is quite interesting!
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