Belated praise for this post. I will confess that I have not yet read it in its entirety, but what I have read so far is impressive, and the coin...
So all the winners but @chrsmat71 have posted, and we're waiting on him to make first pick! Funny. I will send him a PM.
The one with the "10" is (as I'm sure you've already suspected) some kind of gaming counter or counting jeton as well, but I was unfamiliar with...
The posting of that video clip would appear to be a non-sequitur at first, but I will admit that when I read the title of this thread, it suddenly...
Leave it out long enough to acquire some "cabinet toning" and I might change my mind. :)
Sorry to be the dissenting voice, but I prefer the "before" look myself, at least based on these photos. That is shown in a larger picture,...
OK, we have some winners! :woot: For Winner#1, from Post#21, we have ... @chrsmat71! Congratulations! You get first pick of five coins from the...
I like Mary Beard, too. And Mary Roach, though I don't think the latter has written about ancient Rome or coins ... yet.
OK, I just remembered ... we've run out of July, now (good riddance!) and are into August. This means it'll be time for a drawing. No time for...
PS- and circling back around to the original topic, I'll bet Vespasian himself would've laughed, since he's recorded as having had a sense of...
Maybe first one, then the other! Or maybe one person did both the laughing and the flogging! Reminds me of a certain patriotic US Civil War...
Ew! PUS! That's a neat detail I might've overlooked the first three or four times I looked at the coin.
I remember saving up from my first summer job at age 16 to buy my first US gold coin. It was an 1857 $5 piece, maybe F-VF-ish. Still remember it...
*I* would have bought that! The one with the decoupage coin clippings is super neat, too. I agree that the first picture in the OP needs to...
If that's the case (and it's a valid point), then yeah, maybe not worth slabbing. Your call. But considering the thing cost you practically...
1894-S dime? Shoot, how rare can they be? I've got six of the things in my pocket right now! ;)
I happen to know he got that as a lucky bulk bag cherrypick for mere pennies, so he can't possibly lose on it. ;):greedy::D Couldn't have...
It is normal for a US coin to have that kind of rotation. If you look at the ones in your pocket, you'll find that the reverse is upside-down in...
Me too. Sometimes I teach, and just as often I learn. Nice the way that works. :)
@LaCointessa - I was wondering where you had been! Glad to see you back.
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