German States (Saxony) silver 3 mark proof, Battle of Leipzig centennial commemorative, 1913-E [IMG] (PCGS PR62 DCAM)
@Siberian Man - I see you just changed your pictures to full-size format instead of thumbnails. That's much better! I love those Portuguese...
PS- that was a very classy gesture on @paddyman98's part! PPS- I would have said you're crazy for thinking about the "guitar pick" thing, but I...
Yes, another US coin brings us to 1914, but hey, this was my second-best cherrypick of all time. Paid somewhere between three and five cents for...
Neat stuff. Those are indeed "the cool kind". Hey, why don'tcha find some other kind of photo backdrop besides the multicolored (rug? blanket?...
Well-worn. That baby's seen 51 years of circulation, is all. Worth a quarter. Kind of fun to see one that's done its job for half a century,...
Interesting. I did not know that. Of course I always use Google for searches. Yahoo? What's that? LOL Edit to add: sometimes I'll add "......
That's a useful site - NGC uses all the Krause data. However, their interface is somewhat clunky and not terribly user-friendly, so I usually...
Since we're still on 1916, here's one of the love tokens from my past collection, which made it into a "Featured" thread here. "Bertha's Boy"...
That's because it's a two-year type. ;)
Indeed. Despite a little rim nick and some surface issues, that's a nice find. Give it a gentle rub with Vaseline and it'll look better. That...
Kinda hard to beat that for nine bucks! This was the Valerian I in my old novice collection. 'Tis, I believe, the only coin of his I've had....
Those are really rough. However, the 1896 Puerto Rican 5-centavos piece, like all Puerto Rican coins, is relatively scarce. That coin would be...
A frog. "Swiss Frog": Pictorial love token carving on 1885-B Swiss 20-rappen coin @RickO has this one now. I kinda miss it. :D [IMG] [IMG]...
28 mm Italian/Argentine medal commemorating the 50th anniversary of Italian unification, September 20, 1911. Struck for and/or by the Italian...
Horses or dragons, then? This one has both: Great Britain: gold half-sovereign of Queen Victoria, 1901, from the Terner Collection [IMG] New...
An 1844 Argentine coin from Buenos Aires (they spelled it "Buenos Ayres" back then). I just bought this from @coin_kid. So Argentina or 1844 to...
That was a crazy-good "steal", no matter what it looked like!
These newps of mine are kind of "CircCammy" - the Seljuq one in particular. Ancient Greece (Spartans in Taras, Calabria, Italy): silver drachm,...
Yep. Now, of course, I do like to know. But I still find myself not caring a whole lot about the varieties, personally.
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