These were done by hand. It's largely a lost art. Yes, there are still some extremely skilled engravers out there today - and some of them make...
Nice! Love seein' those white edges in a roll, don't you? Not that it happens to me much. It has been years since I've gotten a roll of halves...
Interesting! Thanks for the tip.
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Great piece! As far as @Kirkuleez's ID goes, that's often about as good as you can hope for. The middle initial helps narrow things down in this...
Excellent theme! I like it.
I'm broke. :(
Nice coin. Interesting speculation about the influence Carinus' dalliance had on history. Here is the Carinus from my first Roman collection....
Nice batch of coins. I've always liked these.
If it makes you feel any better, I've never been able to distinguish these Large and Small date varieties, especially on the 1970 cents. Even...
I've seen this kind of irregularity on a lot of these, though I couldn't tell you what caused it.
Yep. It's machine damage.
These KM876 French francs are very common coins, but they're a neat design and I've always liked them. That certainly does look like some pretty...
Indeed, those are nice results.
Ah, yes. Makes perfect sense to me. o_O [IMG]
I don't think it's all that bad looking now. Don't dip it. In this particular case, it would make the coin look worse.
I think NGC has put stars on ancients from the beginning of the NGC Ancients program, but I'm not certain. @Zohar444 has a whole constellation of...
I didn't get that one for less than a hundred bucks like you did the Seated dime. ;)
Not worth sending off to be graded, but not a bad find for a bulk lot, either.
Was gonna try to make it this year and end my ten-year show hiatus, but alas, I will not be going.
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