I just decided to rename your cat “Punkin”, for some reason. Handsome beastie.
We're getting pretty close to launch now. Stay tuned. Claire has lined up a pretty nice array of goodies this year.
Ye Olde Random Number Generator hath spoken again, and the lucky number is... 17! [ATTACH] ... and Post #17 was by @Bradley Trotter!...
Time for the drawing...
Even without the interesting reverse… wow… that strike… that portrait!
They’re all nice, but the portrait and contrasting toning on the quinarius at the top grabbed me the most. Again, all nice, but from the Greek...
Here are the Julias that have passed through my collections over the years. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yep, very obvious PMD. "Defdam", as @paddyman98 says. Definitely damaged. Poor Lizzie and her lion pal took a few hard knocks.
This. Wear and tear to the copper plating exposed the zinc core. Bonus: environmental damage, too.
Lovely ladies indeed, and fantastic presentation as usual. I kind of thought about doing a set of the Julias. I find your Julia Domna...
Not quite Mint State, so as such, it's technically not really worth any more than face value. That being said, if it was a circulation find,...
Oh, most definitely!
Yes, she does a good writeup. I like her cat (named Penny, of course). We’ve now had two cats named Penny ourselves.
FWIW, I wouldn’t have known whodahell he was talkin’ about, either, if I hadn’t spent 20 years hanging around on the PCGS forums. ;) Never did...
He definitely hasn't made it easy on the uninitiated.
Laura Sperber. Legend Numismatics. Another prominent female dealer.
Charmy Harker. "The Penny Lady". Presumably the coin mentioned in the OP is an 1877 Indian cent in AU58.
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A type I’ve always admired. My pickiness over aesthetics would preclude that particular example from being included in my personal collection,...
If so, some of us didn’t get the memo.
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