This. They're a very popular design. I have never considered them particularly expensive, though? Were you looking at a top-grade example or a...
I want one of those coins!!! :nailbiting:
Austrian Netherlands: copper 2 liards (2 Oorden), Insurrection coinage, 1790 [IMG] [IMG] Obverse: 4-Line inscription within wreath, date and...
A charm or token of some kind.
Yes, and they no doubt have prices that a mere peasant "lord" like myself could never hope to afford! LOL But I did just buy that Brabant florin...
PS- as you have now discovered (and obviously already knew, thanks to your victory in the Numismatic Gladiator X "cheap coin competition"),...
I am delighted to have made a convert. It is the highest praise to which a dedicated numismatist can aspire, I think. Particularly to have a...
Lovely. I had a mid-1500s Francis I ecu d'or au soleil back in the late 1990s, and rather miss it a bit. You can actually see luster on your...
That shouldn't be so surprising. My collection has been so far mostly (though not exclusively) Western-oriented and admittedly a bit Eurocentric....
Japan (Meiji Era): gold Nibu-Kin (2 bu), ca. 1868-1869 PCGS XF45, cert.#29851551. KM(C) 21d, .223 gold and .777 silver, 11 x 19 mm, 3.0 g....
This turned into a great "elephant coin" thread. I have not had any on ancients, alas. Did have one of those WW2-era Belgian Congo hexagonal...
Ah, yes. I see that now. But I think you can see how my eye would take those dots to be teeth at first glance! LOL (I had wondered about...
Speaking of stupid behavior, I was once working in the yard and poured a little gasoline to help start a fire on the brush pile. Decided to test...
This! I don't think I have any obsolete critters on my coins. Maybe a mythical one or two. I did learn an interesting factoid from Scott...
I agree, except remove the "might". That's totally worth it.
Oooh... lovely! Though perhaps oddly, I find myself less interested in the elephant for once, and strangely drawn to that swirling, abstract,...
Great pickup, particularly for the price! He sure has a menacing mouthful of teeth! Looks like the "Jaws" character in that silly late-1970s...
$30-ish for the coin in the OP sounds like a very good deal to me.
Yes, Kushan gold caught my attention a few months ago, which was what made me look up the history.
Oh- one other thing (preached as much as a reminder to myself as to any of you): They have not yet invented the machine that will go out and get...
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