That was my exact buying rationale. I usually can't afford higher grades, though I could have gotten a somewhat higher graded one in the 1830s...
Not sure. You mean it would be a 9 if "adjusted for inflation", i.e., ownership bias? ;)
Netherlands (Gelderland): "St. John" goldgulden (florin) of Arnold van Egmond, ca. 1423-1472 [IMG]
Cross the Channel. [IMG]
A 17th century French Louis XIV brass jeton I found in some bulk junk recently. So it cost me mere pennies. (Louis XIV was the "Sun King", as...
Don't feel bad. I'm what I call a "magpie collector" much of the time.* Sure, I know how to read, and often I'll learn the finer points of a...
Play from the borders of modern Belgium. Belgium (Liège, Chapter of St. Lambert): copper méreau or communion token; memento mori, 1686 [IMG]
Lithuania (under Polish rule, so you may play from the modern borders of either Lithuania or Poland) [IMG]
I see a regular 2009-D cent with a fingerprint and a bunch of inexplicable blue flecks. Extra what? Blue flecks? Well, yes. It does have those.
That 1794 Lima/BoE dollar is awesome. "The head of a fool on the neck of an ass". I'd like one someday. Never had one.
I exclusively use PCGS for all of my medieval and later coins. (NGC does get my ancients.) It is mostly a matter of personal preference, though...
OK, @Muzyck - I will blame this on you. You made me do this. ;) https://www.pcgs.com/cert/38594734 [IMG] We now return to our previously...
Ex-, alas. 'Tis another "bygone". Click here and wait for the slow page load if you want to see the rest of my "bygones" from the last six or...
Until looking at that map just now, I didn't realize their empire extended so far east. I typically imagined the Seleucids as a more Levantine...
The thought about life expectancy did occur to me. When I was younger, I had that extremely acute vision (could see the VDB initials under the...
I voted a 9 in the poll. Ask me again next week and it could be a 10. My opinions of my own coins often fluctuate between 8, 9, and 10 in these...
Yes, they were issued in sets. See the pics above.
Aladdin's Castle sure must've cranked those arcade tokens out by the tens of millions at least, I would imagine. One always seems to turn up in...
Hm. Nope, not even with Google Image search. My results varied. But anyway, yeah. Those. Miniature novelty coins. Call 'em "Inflation Money"...
That gives all sorts of articles about inflation, not miniature coins. But I suppose maybe these sets of miniature novelty coins might have been...
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