Sorry, but I can't make out anything in those pictures.
The latter, please. :) No contest there. PS- don't mistake me for one of those a Kool-Aid-quaffing "PCGS or nothing else" kind of people (who...
All hail @Numismat! When I hear "8-maravedis", I think of the big, chunky, half-dollar-sized milled copper ones of Isabella II in the mid-1800s....
An 8-maravedis piece would be pretty large, I think (at least they were later, in the 1800s milled coins). My 1658 4-maravedis is about the size...
I only had five Straits coins in the collection I built for my daughter, but I remember when I sold them, the bidding was quite active, and of...
You just dated yourself with that seemingly-obscure reference, but I picked up on it for some odd reason (even though I never saw the musical or...
Those are much more complete and better struck than the little boogers I had once! Mine were on pretty oblong flans. There were about a...
That Indian cent happens to be a pattern coin. It is an 1858 prototype of the Indian cent design that was first produced in 1859. The shield on...
You mean the "P" in PLURIBUS? That's the only "P" I can think of that should be on the back of a Lincoln Memorial cent. If you're referring to...
"Where's the Fire?": pictorial love token on 1875 Seated Liberty dime [IMG] Larger obverse picture Larger reverse picture Host coin: 1875 USA...
NGC, I hope y'all are seeing this. @1934 Wreath Crown - I enjoyed "stealing" - borrowing - your coins. ;) [ATTACH]
Actually, they don't bother me, either, IF the coin was photographed nicely before it got entombed. If I have to put up with prongs in the...
And therein lies the problem, in a civil war or revolutionary situation. The "local authority" might change from week to week, depending on the...
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