Oh! I totally love your newp! Perfect toning! That contrasting look is terrific. As to December, I might not be done for the year yet, either,...
That's a very handsome medal. The Thai script looks neat. The signature of the French engraver, Auguste Patey, looked familiar to me, so I...
That was a tough one to let go. If I had that decision to do over again, I'd... ... be stuck. Wouldn't know which way to go, since I loved...
That's a handsome one.
Mexico (Spanish Colonial): silver 8 reales ("Pillar Dollar"), 1761, Mexico City mint [IMG] (PCGS AU50; population 4 with 10 higher as of 11/04/2017)
I guess I'm the opposite of a lot of people. I respect my home country's coins, and do enjoy them, but here in the USA our coins just don't go so...
Another one that came (and subsequently went) this year is this nice little ANACS MS62 1810 British 1/3 guinea. These are rather tough in Mint...
I put it in the "Coin Chat" forum, since my purchases weren't exclusively ancients, though ancients were an important part of my year. I explored...
Here are my top acquisitions from 2017. There were others, of course, including primarily love tokens, but this is just what what came into (and...
Seems I missed the boat on the contest aspect of this thread, but will make the observation that perhaps direct contact with wheat bread will...
Mintage: 1,382,734,540. That's 1.3 billion, with a "B". Please tell me how that can be considered "rare". Sorry, but as mentioned, that is just...
Yeah, good luck. Who knows, with a little mineral oil soaking and some careful work with a bamboo skewer and a soft cloth, maybe you can improve...
Continue with Flowers. Ancient Greece (Kingdom of Macedon): silver "Mercenaries" drachm of King Perseus, ca. 175-170 BC [IMG] (NGC Ch MS; Strike...
Cool! I've had many a Wang Mang (dang, that sounds SO wrong, doesn't it? LOL), but just round cash coins- never any spades or suchlike.
ROFL! Yeah, I've read many accounts of what a "really nice guy" Caracalla was. Like the time he supposedly murdered his brother Geta in their...
Excellent! These are great coins, and offer lots of affordable "bang for the buck". Congrats! You got a very handsome example, there. Looks...
Exactly. I'm only after a casual sideline I'll play with for a little while, and I could never afford to build a complete Morgan collection,...
I voted "yes" to all but the two paper money categories (I don't collect paper money, but could perhaps one day be tempted by some older types,...
The only errors I see here are the misspelling of "nickel" and "shiny" and the lack of any pictures. ;)
This was my instinctive reaction, too. At least 50%. But it's hard for me to make that determination, since an issue like that would be a...
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