You find a lot of that in the mint sets of the 70's and 80's. You'd expect the mint to take a little more care with ASE's though.
I'll take your word for it. It just seems like a 54 gram chunk of gold ought to buy you more than half a horse, in any era.
That could only have been used as a bullion holding, right? I find it difficult to believe such a coin would have ever seen any "ordinary" commerce.
Sometimes they develop after the coin has been encased.
You seem a little too happy today. We're going to need you to pee in this cup...
I see a few of the later issues with emperor VIMA TAKTO floating around for sale, but none of them look anywhere near as well-preserved as yours.
That's a very intriguing coin - the second pic really accentuates the features. I'm also impressed with how round and centered it is for an...
I've got the camera and tripod. Just need the lights and know-how.
I'm planning to do a lot of collecting, so in the long run it's going to be cheaper and quicker for me to buy the necessary equipment and learn...
OK, privacy settings fixed - sorry about that.
Ugh. Maybe I have it on private - let me check.
I've just got to catch up to you when it comes to photography. Those are all sellers' images, but they do faithfully represent the coins.
A handful of my favorite pieces from my first two months of collecting, uploaded in no particular order. Some slabbed, some raw. :) (Click on my...
Box. Pandora's. Opened.
Good luck! I for one, hope that it's authentic. It's always exciting when a new piece of this rarity is discovered.
Of course, taking captives was nothing new to the Romans, whether they used them as a buffer, or for slave labor. (I'll venture most of the coins...
I didn't collect those pieces for the sake of their symbolism. I'm just not that astute. But the more I looked at the coins and studied the...
It's NT. The real question was whether it would be market-acceptable to a TPG. I believe it could be.
Well. There's something you don't see on a coin everyday.
It's the Carl Sagan Kennedy!
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