Welcome. @Aethelred and @Deacon Ray ought to like these. I'm vaguely familiar with the types and the history behind these, but only a little bit.
Woohoo! I got lucky, on the very coin I liked! Thanks! I pledged to do my own giveaway if I won a coin in this one, so here goes!
I recently pledged to do my own giveaway* if by some chance I happened to win in @Ajax 's ancient coin drawing. Well, Lo and behold, I did, and...
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Yes, MS70 (or in this case PR70, for a proof) is the very top of the American Sheldon scale of grading used by TPGs (third-party grading...
Most if not all of the ones I've seen appear to be brass. Though I've seen some stained and spotty ones, they mostly seem to stand the tests of...
Very handsome coin. Looks great with that Deep Cameo contrast. I had to look up the Battle of Chesme, which I'd never heard of before.
I couldn't afford the melt/bullion value of a coin like that, let alone its numismatic value. Congratulations on yet another impressive piece,...
That's cool. I can't remember the last time I saw a Monticello $2.
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And you, Joe. Made any more awesome additions?
I can see why you'd think about that, but really, I wouldn't try anything. The scratches really aren't that bad. If it were my coin and they...
Definitely! Far better to have an ancient scratch or two than modern tooling done in a misguided attempt to hide them!
Yes, I use just such a box, and this coin will eventually end up in a slab. Not that I'm a major proponent of slabbing ancients, but I do slab...
Very handsome portrait. Cool reverse. Don't sweat the scratches. They're part of that coin's long history now, and not serious enough to be a...
I know! My tablet tried to autocorrect to ENEMAS. LOL Autocorrect will invariably choose the most disturbing similar word.
Wow, it looked like that Memmius denarius said "ENEMIES" at first glance! I've always liked that Cupid/goat type. Never had one.
ROFL I see now that Panzerman explained in seven short words what it took me several rambling paragraphs to cover. ;)
Both are correct. AU, the chemical symbol, actually has its root in "AV". Both are from the Latin aurum, I believe. The Romans did not use a...
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