Which means your replica is very thinly plated with a very tiny bit of gold.
The real thing is worth around $7.5 million. It's one of the most famous American rarities. That's why there are so many copies and novelty...
Oh, no! There's that nagging guilt again! Funny, just this morning I was thinking, "Man, I still haven't submitted any articles to The...
On the Collectors Universe Buy/Sell/Trade forums and the For Sale forum here. I put pricetags on everything in the CollectiveCoin gallery (that...
The coins are in third-party certification slabs and kept in an Intercept Shield box when in safe deposit and Lighthouse slab albums when on...
The self-imposed "Box of 20" limit went out the window in mid-2016, as I mentioned in the introduction. I've been gradually letting the...
He was a famous coin collector himself, for one thing! :) Yep, it's a very common type, despite the low PCGS pops. I knew that going in. But...
Somebody in a recent post referred to the satyr on that Thracian/Pantikapaion coin as "the Wolfman", which is an apt resemblance, and pretty...
Less than a hundred bucks! In the slab! With a TrueView image! :happy: Got a lot of "bang for the buck" with these 18 newps, considering I...
I don't, usually, but thanks. It's always nice to have the specialists' view on things, since (as you may have noticed), I'm a generalist who...
It will be going to PCGS, as will all the stuff that's presently raw. (Except the ancients, which have to go to NGC because PCGS doesn't grade them.)
Wasn't terribly expensive. Less than sixty bucks (already in the slab), as I recall. Lotsa "bang for the buck" on that one, small though it is.
Hmm. All those departures above were bittersweet. Let's see what's new! Here's what came in since last time: Greece (Thrace, Pantakapaion):...
There were 18 departures and 19 arrivals since last time, in what has been the biggest purge in my collection since 2013. It was a downsizing of...
[IMG] United States: copper "Hard Times" token; C.D. Peacock Jeweler, Chicago, "1837" (struck ca. 1902) [IMG] PCGS MS63 BN; population 1 - the...
[IMG] United States: gold quarter-eagle ($2.50), 1843-O, Small Date variety, New Orleans mint [IMG] PCGS XF40; population 63 with 310 higher as...
[IMG] Great Britain: silver South Sea Company sixpence of George I, 1723; double-struck mint error (2nd strike 25% off-center) [IMG] PCGS F12; no...
[ATTACH] Sicily (Norman Kings): gold tari of Guglielmo I ("William the Bad"), ca. 1154-1166 AD [IMG] England: silver penny of King John,...
[IMG] Greece (Ionia, Phokaia): electrum hekte, ca. 478-387 BC [IMG] Greece (Thrace, Pantakapaion): bronze Æ21, ca. 310-303 BC [IMG] Greece...
(5/16/19: This thread got trashed when I accidentally deleted some images, so I'm repurposing it as a construction draft for new writeups.) [IMG]...
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