Ditto. Maybe a bit of both factors.
Wow! Very nice indeed! How much cleaning was necessary?
I have no pretensions of being a great coin photographer. Right now I’d settle for “adequate”. Here are two sets of cellphone pix of the same...
Ugh. I hate Facebook. Visit mine only once or twice a year. You're right, though- it's good for tracking people down. (First I've gotta track...
Could very well be. :( for them. :):greedy: for @Cosimo zingy
That's the one with Lady Godiva on the other side, right?
I had an order from Sweden arrive within about 36 hours, once, to my utter astonishment. I had initially grumbled about the seller's...
Cowabunga! What a stupendous stroke of luck! I believe it- it still happens. I hit a good lick with a bunch of 40% Kennedies once (there was...
(OK, it's not quite yet October as I post this, but close enough.) I will continue adding new material as time allows. Click the link and allow...
Very nice. My wild guess would be 62. As such, a very desirable coin, as you are aware.
Love it.
So of course I had to Google the "Tobol(sk) Thinker". And tantalum. Interesting on both counts. Hadn't heard of either, so I didn't know...
There are some really cool looking Kazakh coins out there. This is no exception. I think that 2019 owl is wicked cool looking.
Here is my first (and so far only-) bracteate. 'Twas a relatively recent purchase. German States (Brunswick-Lüneburg): silver bracteate of...
There's some nice looking silvered AEs in this thread. It often did. Not so much from the ones you may have seen when you were young- those had...
My friend @Aethelred (seldom seen on the forums) uses the Sutton Hoo helmet for his avatar. It was indeed a find of historic proportions....
Another handsome bronze.
If anybody wants to waste 15 minutes of their life watching an old token (and some other, less interesting stuff) being dug up, here you go....
Do you really want to hear the answer to that? ;) [ATTACH]
It would make my day to make her day. Note to self: dig through the old detector finds drawer and try to find that ring (again).
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