If it's a fake, I must admit that it might've fooled me. It's a pretty deceptive counterfeit at a glance, if counterfeit it is.
Yes, calling them "copper" is essentially the truth, though there is that little bit of other stuff in the alloy. 'Twas a minor technical point,...
What @paddyman98 said. Welcome! What part of NC? I used to live in Asheville.
Speaking of mechanical errors, @Savoyspecial once showed me a Norse medal and a Massachusetts Pine Tree shilling he'd sent off at the same time,...
That's what happens with inflation, y'know. ;)
Sold! Asking $35 for the 1837 half dime or $55 for the dime or $84 for both, postpaid to US addresses. These are priced at my cost. The latter...
It was the work of Oscar Roty, so I would imagine it is roughly contemporaneous with his iconic bronze minor coinage of 1897-1921. It's got...
Hey, @demented-alien- I saw that, earlier, when you posted the same thing four times in a row. Not sure if you were having browser issues or were...
That's lovely. I had one in silver with the same obverse, though I can't recall if it was a similar reverse or not. I propose the theme be...
Bronze, technically.
@Bing- that quadriga is terrific. I'm not much into LRBs, but I like that one. Such a nice broad flan, too.
Ditto, though the patina on the second one is nice, too.
There's all kinds of tooling around it. Perhaps someone was trying to alter an S to a D. I don't wanna tell you what I thought it looked like.
Those are a great classic design from that high water mark period for art on European coins. I have always liked them.
It's official, now- I just pulled the trigger on that octagonal French jeton. It will be coming from France. I look forward to seeing it in hand. :)
Oh, yeah- I owned this great little owl done on a 2015 quarter, too, until somebody "made me an offer I couldn't refuse" and I sold it. [ATTACH]
I'll guess $265.00. In late 2016 I bid on modern hobo carvings for the first time and almost always lost. Only once did I win on a more...
My needs are relatively simple. I'm working on a modest, circulated Morgan dollar set in a Dansco 7172 album. That's the one-per-year date set, so...
Price guides, alas, do not always align perfectly with the realities of the marketplace. I feel thy pain, Brother.
Whoop! Whoop! Nice "CircCam" there! You should post that one here, as well!
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