PS- @01mikep (and anyone else who's a "digger")- I suggested to Peter that a metal detecting (actually, I prefer "Treasure Hunting") forum would...
I envy your being able to detect in Europe! That week in England was my one and only opportunity to hunt in the Old World, and was the...
Assuming I'm still wearing my default "Holey Hat Avatar" and haven't temporarily switched to something else when you read this, here's the...
I've also found those interesting. I would not have guessed that that Claudius AE was struck under Domitian! (PS- love that portrait and patina...
I'd tend to agree, though not a paper money guy, myself. I think star notes of this era really need to be UNC to be worth any premium over face...
Thanks for the KM numbers, spirityoda. Made 'em easier to look up online. (NGC maintains a Krause database, but it's not the most user-friendly...
This ca. 1300-1310 Long Cross silver penny of Edward I "Longshanks" was the first coin I found on my 2013 metal detecting trip to England. The...
Yep. Older tourist fakes, then. Confirms my earlier suspicion that, while fake, they weren't absolutely modern fakes. I've seen much worse. As...
I tend to agree. What's been done has been done. Best to leave it alone from any further tinkering. Though perhaps not fully original, it is...
Yep. Eadweard Muybridge. What a "weard" name that fella had, huh?
I don't recall any particularly noticeable striations on any of my coins, but I've always liked that "dragon boat" design on those 5-won pieces,...
I'd put both of those in the upper VF range; perhaps borderline XF. Handsome pieces. The 50-centime was likely cleaned at one point, but is...
I used to have a holed example on my old "Holey Coin Vest", as it happens. Ain't a whole lot of coin left when somebody put a bigger hole in one...
Yay!
Digging old coins like this and being the first to see and hold them in centuries is indeed a real rush, as I can personally attest.
Oh, I dunno. Could've been worse: "J. Sanford Saltus, an international figure in the numismatic world, died suddenly at the Hotel Metropole, in...
PS- I like the hand engraving on that piece in the OP. Does look like silver. Very neat piece!
Cool! I had not heard of the Knights of Pythias prior to making an interesting metal detector find. I will repost that 2008 story below, if...
OK, so maybe the color ain't original so it might not be slabbable with a straight grade, but despite all that, it's a very handsome coin. I like...
My sentiments exactly, on both counts.
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