Yay! Thanks for the followup!
Another nice one. Again, I'm not sure if it's been polished or not (ex-jewelry), due to the way it looks in the photos (it seems a bit shiny in...
Luck has favored you, and I hope it favors your son for the rest of his life.
I'd guesstimate this coin at at least XF40 details, personally. Maybe XF45. (Mind you, Pratt Indian coinage is not my strong suit at all.)
Nice. Maybe ex-jewelry- it's hard to say from the pics, but Indian gold is nice to have, regardless. The first thing to do is come up with an...
As long as I've got the time and am having fun, I enjoy doing it.
PS- if you're in the mood for the very opposite of ancient, and would like a little bit of shiny modern silver dated 2023, there's always Giveaway...
Hercules. Alexander the Great in the guise of Hercules, on a posthumous tetradrachm. [IMG] Next: more Alexander the Great, be it lifetime or...
'Twas my thought, exactly. LOL
*If these giveaway announcements are annoying, lament not- this is the last one I'll post here for a little while. ~RWS/"LM" [IMG] These coins...
I assume that is in reference to the coin you won in Round 10. Thanks for the update. Glad it got there fairly quickly. You never know, during...
I'm afraid the photo quality won't be as good in this contest as it was in the last one.
It appears to have been made from (or in imitation of) a Bolivian coin. I have a 10-centavo piece with a similar design. [IMG]
Yes, very prooflike indeed.
I received the following via private message, from @john-charles, who won the Morgan dollar in Round 4.
Shipping update: The Round 12 prize is in the mailbox to ship to @Newbee03. Giveaway #80 is now open.
This contest is now open for entries. We begin with... ROUND 1. The prize is a Roman bronze antoninianus of the emperor Aurelian, struck...
So now it's time for the drawing for... Round 12 (the Phoenician coin from Arados, ca. 242-166 BC). Our lucky number was... 421. [ATTACH] And...
If there are a lot more World coins in your mother's stash, I would recommend picking up the multivolume Krause Standard Catalog of World Coins....
I hope so. Welcome to the wonderful world of World coins! Over on Collectors Universe, years ago, we took to calling ourselves "The Dark Side"....
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