We are indeed there! Welcome to Fall, everyone! (Or Spring, for those of y'all Down Under or in the Southern hemisphere.) Since I am an...
Excluding Egypt, here is the only other African coin in my collection besides the two posted above. I was delighted to find it in a bulk lot....
I remember jambo (hello), twiga (giraffe), tembo (elephant), samaki (fish), and ... um... Yeah. Not much else. I was only six when we moved to...
A most excellent array!
Thanks, I was wondering who SAM was. That’s a really awesome set, WB2- and the fact that you’ve kept it pristine all these years is neat. The...
The Ghanaian leopard coin is also MS69 (PCGS). I submitted that one myself. It is population 1/0 - in other words, the only one certified by...
Here’s the correct URL for the Museum of PCGS Holders: https://www.pcgs.com/holdermuseum
Maybe, in some cases? Dunno. I have zero experience there. I think acetone is more commonly used.
Most are, yes. That is not the issue here. Artificial patina is.
I dimly remember Dar. We lived in Arusha.
Nifty! As a former childhood resident of Tanzania, I can tell you that “giraffe” in Swahili is twiga. That’s one of the few Swahili words that I...
Oh, believe me, it hasn’t been the only sign. Eh? What’s that you said, Sweetheart? I can’t hear you! Now... what was I doing, again? *...
Love the unicorn piece. I dug a Green River Whiskey token exactly like that while metal detecting, once. Another cool Spanish-American War-era...
Ireland: copper "Hibernia" halfpenny of George III, 1782; double-struck mint error (likely a contemporary counterfeit) [ATTACH] I never got around...
Dunno. Not in my arena. I agree that it doesn't quite look like laminations, but it could have been some other kind of flawed planchet, maybe?...
This. I've bought from him once before, and got a decent coin for the money, but as mentioned, he and another dealer were exposed as artificial...
Can’t see that. Mobile phone. I get the stripped-down version without the recent topics list when I’m viewing CT on my phone. I’ll look when I...
Link? ;)
I think saying the MAJORITY of unslabbed ones is overstating the case a bit, but yeah, one should certainly tread carefully with unslabbed...
But a GOOD oops, for a change! ;) Disorganization brings its share of bad oopses. Ever sold a coin, only to discover it missing, and had to...
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