I think PCI was competent enough for basic authentication purposes. In their gold-label era they likely let some problem coins through, though.
@Paddy54 - those might be the nicest enameled coins I've seen. If they're coins at all underneath there? I've never collected those - all too...
Cool. I would have thought of that myself in ... oh ... maybe about 260 years or so, long after flashlights became obsolete (and I a decomposed...
Cyprus. 4-1/2 piastres, 1901. Let's have odd denominations, next. That Jersey 1/13 shilling I posted earlier is another weird number. [IMG]
Yes, just fine in the holder it's in, then. PCI Gold Label (sounds like a malt liquor, haha) is not exactly a premium brand of plastic, but it's...
The old green label PCI holders are generally perceived as being more conservatively graded than the gold-label ones of this era, as I recall (and...
Wait. Am I having deja vu? Didn't I just see this lot in another thread?
I like the look of that big Commodus.
We in the "First World" are a spoiled lot, aren't we.
Barber coins are good for CircCam contrast. [IMG]
Great patina, and lovely 19th century painting. Herod looks rather fierce and somber there. The lass with the pending wardrobe malfunction...
Both stunning group lots, and very appealing in how well matched they are. @Carausius - I love your avatar picture, too, though one has to click...
I only joined the world of mobile data a few months ago. My old phone didn't have it, either. I can sympathize. Boy, I sure love having it now.
I had these same thoughts. But WDIK. It's hard for me to say for sure, here.
I've never done pinbacks, but holeys, yes, indeed! And love tokens. I've continued with the love token thing and am now on my third collection...
Y'all are WAY more organized than I am! My solution, since I've posted stuff willy-nilly all over the Internet for the last 18 years, is to...
Holey World coins from the front of the Holey Coin Vest (continued) Greece: silver 1/2 drachma, 1855 [IMG] Guatemala (Spanish Colonial): silver...
I thought about it, with a few of the tiny California gold fractionals. I had one with only a thread-thin bit of metal closing the hole. But no,...
Holey World coins from the front of the Holey Coin Vest (continued) Canada (Nova Scotia): bronze cent, 1861 [IMG] Central American Republic:...
Holey World coins from the front of the Holey Coin Vest (In alphabetical order by country) Austria: silver 10-kreuzer, 1770-A [IMG] Austria:...
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