Likely a royal or diplomatic presentation piece struck with penny dies, would be my guess. Certainly would not have been intended for normal...
I did. I passed on the Lizzie. But perhaps @Curtisimo will go there. I'm passing on the Griffin and the other coin, too, but perhaps only...
My gift is being shipped outside the country, so apologies in advance to the recipient if it should arrive in a slightly tardy manner. I had...
Here is one that should be arriving in @MontCollector's mailbox in the next day or two. I got it in a box lot from @Aethelred and @Mark Metzger...
Yes, hence my aside about "he'd probably still kill you". Joe Stalin and Saddam Hussein were also both somewhat handsome and rather jovial...
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You Eurodudes (Brits included) have so much more interesting currency. We USA-ers are so stuck in our ways. That's why our govenment continues...
OK, I have done some hard thinking and I have made up my mind. Will it be Coin A, Coin B, or Coin C? I've decided to pass on Coin A (the English...
Re. the Nurnberg klippe, I had one of those on my old Holey Coin Vest, and loved it. It was one of my favorite "holeys". The little boy on the...
Kinda what I figured. Which would explain why some notes have two heads and others three, I suppose.
Your innocently-intended joke was funny, actually. ;) Or would've been, without the (now-happily-resolved) drama.
Sorry, I fell way behind on this thread and am just coming back in. Where are we? Ah, yes. 1754. [IMG]
Wow, what a portrait! I've seen some really funny ones from the 17th and 18th centuries (big wigs, huge honkin' noses, Hapsburg jaws, and the...
Those new coins that divide up the coat of arms are sure weird. I wasn't sure what I thought of 'em at first, but they've kind of grown on me....
We recently took a long southwesterly transatlantic journey from Iceland to the Bahamas (surprising, but legit!) so let's now do a long...
Yes/No what?
Aha. Naturally I did not know this. I gather then that the holograms are on some kind of tapelike strip that is applied during the manufacturing...
Yep, just appears to be heavy circulation wear, is all.
@dwhiz- were your ears burnin'? That's your post that was mentioned.
Welcome. Sorry you won't make a mint by selling those, but they're quite handsome. (Now the original 18th century medals those restrikes were...
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