I like that your SS went along with the CircCam theme. The Swaziland piece is very cool. I've not encountered that type in my bulk bag...
Ugly coins need lovin', too! :)
Key date. Some would see this love token engraving as a tragedy because of that. But when I was working on a date set of Seated Dimes with love...
Thanks. I did not consider those. The only Portuguese ceitils I've seen pictures of were some pretty ragged examples found at the site of...
Eleven coins! And I thought my collection was small! But if one of those coins is a 1909-S VDB, well, that's something.
Thanks. I knew "centration dimple" was a misnomer, but not what the correct term was.
Don't you love cherrypicking yourself? Or noticing previously unnoticed details? I'm notoriously unobservant much of the time. Lovely coin....
I like the sound of this.
You know you've been overexposed to commercial Christmas kitsch when you look at that hippo's head with the reeds behind it, and all you can think...
Ow, ow. My jaw hurts from where it hit the floor. :greedy::inpain::dead: I'd trade all my Top Ten from this year (and perhaps the two previous...
You're right about the hammer part, but there were still dies involved. [ATTACH]
That's starting to sound like Elagabalus to me. But was he a sailor? I think there were sailors on some of his coins. (?) Edit: no, never mind.
Oh, my! Wonderful. I've never heard of Topiros. Or, for that matter, a faux counterstamp. Fascinating. What's the "divot" in the blank field...
Oh. Sorry. Haven't a clue.
Then again, by rotating the image 45°, I can imagine I see an arched bridge. At first I imagined it to be the wolf suckling Romulus & Remus on...
Something else is in the person/deity's right hand (on the left side of the coin).
I see a standing figure with a (garland? cornucopia?) over his/her left shoulder. A deity or personification, maybe. Or pareidolia ... :nailbiting:
Well, at least I think this one is really an ancient and not something that merely looks like an ancient.
Now it's MY turn to be stumped. I certainly hope you're not being as tricky as I was! :p
That's great. I have my own "dime of destiny" story. Remind me to post it later. No time just now. It's kinda freaky.
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