I suppose this July 1690 "gun money" halfcrown counts as emergency money. (For those unfamiliar with them, the name comes from the fact that...
Seems a plausible enough guess to me. Something like that.
I don't think the hole is plugged, but otherwise agree. It was made for someone to engrave their unit and other information on the reverse, but...
Nice find! It's an off-center strike. Maybe 15-20% O/C or so?
PS- I did have a look at your book in the PDF- and it looks great- but I did not have the time to give it the attention it deserves.
I like that 100-slab briefcase.
@JP@ won Round 1. Round 2 is now posted, and is open for entries.
That looks like @ZoidMeister got hold of that piece! ;)
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] (2) USA silver Peace dollars: 1922 & 1926. To enter this round of the contest: 1. Merely say "I want those!"....
The lucky number for Day 1 is... 66! [ATTACH] And Post #66 was by... @JP@! Congratulations, @JP@! Please contact @Penny Luster with your...
Let's have the first drawing, shall we? :) Firing up the random number generator... stand by...
Medieval Croatia (Ragusa): silver grosso portraying St. Blasius and Christ, ca. 1372-1438 [IMG] PCGS XF40. Now belongs to @dadams. I...
The Gloucester tokens were another issue that particularly fired my young imagination.
Not all of us acquired an early familiarity with these types. Even fewer of us will ever see one in person. In 45 years of collecting, I never...
Stop trashtalkin’ yerself, CJ73. Hey, it’s also in the NE (Northeast) part of the country, right? ;)
Indeed it did. Didn’t get you banned (or infraction-ed), but was a can of worms we didn’t need opened here. It did get you flagged.
I like Fractional currency, too. I don’t do paper money, but if I did, Fractionals would be one of my favored categories. That, and Colonials....
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