I am 54 as of this post; 55 this year (b. Dec. 1965). I am a low-ranking hotel clerk (night auditor) by trade, and have worked in various upscale...
A 1935-S Wheat cent is worth more than one cent, unless it is horribly damaged, which this is not. A very minor lamination error doesn't add much...
Well spoken, @dougsmit. One has to accept that there will be errors and imperfections. Don't scrap your web pages. Let them stand, even if some...
Tarsus. [ATTACH] Next, Tyche, or turreted crown.
I think of 1968 in different terms: of turmoil. The assassinations, the war, the civil strife. It was a tough year for America and the world....
At $6.35, it is impossible to not be enchanted with the coin in the OP. The history... the patina... that's a whole lot of bang for the buck!...
Here is a other one I used to own. It is an A.C. Yates token from Syracuse, NY, from about the same era, and some A.C. Yates advertising cards...
I guess you could say I'm as mad as a hatter over this latest purchase. I've always loved the mid-19th century tokens that mimicked the reverses...
I suspect it was didrachm-priced all along, and the "tetra-" error in the description was merely typographical, by way of habit.
Ken Dorney was reading the thread and confirmed that it is indeed a didrachm. (I guess maybe it would have been pretty cheap to be a tetradrachm,...
Your first ten or so posts have to go through a probationary period wherein moderator approval is required before they appear publicly. (I wish...
Fair 'nuf, but perhaps yours was not the most diplomatic use of one's first post as a new member. That's your prerogative, though.
Wow! Sharp! Much sharper than my didrachm.
I concur with heat damage. Welcome, @Mernskeeter.
Yeah, what would he know, he's only the senior administrator of this site. :hilarious:
Bought this for my sis. Ex-Ken Dorney. Egypt, Late Period, 7th - 4th Century BC Faience Ushabti [IMG] [MEDIA]
Yes, I was offered the option of such pre-rolling color treatments when mine were made. I halway wish I had opted for it, to give the cents more...
Livia. [ATTACH] Next, another coin of Tiberius that isn't a Tribute Penny.
And then there's the tale of the (allegedly early-15th century) Ming Dynasty Chinese medallion I dug in North Carolina in 1994. But that's...
I do think this is how my Roman coin find came to America and ended up on that colonial-era site. The sand roadbed (near one of the earliest...
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