Wow, cool find, Paddy. Never heard that.
Tonga! I knew Dudley Moore Blakely, the man who designed and engraved their very first coins, in 1962. He showed me a gold proof set of the...
I dunno as much about the ancients, but in the world stuff, the estimates were way low.
One of the ancients, albeit small, is a yellowish-orange color. :) The other is big and bronze.
I bid on six: two ancients and four world coins in Goldberg’s Auction #126. Won both ancients and two of the world coins. :) I’m pretty stoked...
Well, nobody has ever been able to tell me what the objects inside this quadripartite punch are? I think I see a stalk of broccoli, a croissant,...
Those old PCI holders bring back memories…
I completed Indian Heads (and Flying Eagles). No ‘56 Flyer, but that’s a pattern coin anyway, so it doesn’t have to count.)
Man, those pictures up there suck. Here, let’s take these puppies out into the sunlight and wiggle ‘em around a bit. (The animated GIF still...
Wow! That and the ‘22 “plain” were the only Lincolns I’ve never owned in 45 years of collecting.
Just a little nudge here, to bump this presently still-active contest above some of the closed ones.
I will ship worldwide, by the way. These coins have already traveled from ancient Greece to Australia to the Golden Isles of Georgia, and they...
LordM Giveaway #70 (Happy Ayyám-i-Há!) This contest is now CLOSED. Winner announced in Post #59. This is a special "just because I felt like...
I just realized that every one of the coins I posted above are “bygones” except for the Conder token. Oh well. Most of the interesting toners in...
Coins now received from the Land Down Under, and thus I am happy to announce that this contest is now open! :)
I am the one who included those weasel words "or similar", because I have very little confidence in my attribution ability, and when I see an...
Thanks. I've spent the first two months of this year in bed, hollowed out by crippling depression and only able to get up to go to work. I count...
Greece (Kingdom of Macedon): silver "Mercenaries" drachm of King Perseus, ca. 175-170 BC (now in the @kazuma78 collection) [IMG] Seleukid...
Aha. Here 'tis. 6TH SIN on a Nevada quarter.
I got one on a Nevada quarter. Embarrassingly, I don’t know what the counterstamp is right now because I didn’t have my specs on, and now it’s...
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