(Newer thread here.) [IMG] Obverse: DIVVS AVGVSTVS VESPASIANVS, laureate head right. Reverse: two Capricorns supporting shield inscribed S C,...
Roman Republic: silver denarius of moneyer L. Furius Brocchus; Ceres and curule chair, ca. 63 BC [IMG] NGC Ch VF; Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5....
Greece (Kingdom of Macedon): silver "Mercenaries" drachm of King Perseus, ca. 175-170 BC [IMG] NGC Ch MS; Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5. Additional...
Pseudo- Rhodes. A Macedonian imitative issue to pay for mercenaries to fight off those pesky Romans in the Third Macedonian War. (Didn't...
Oops. Sorry. Thanks for the clarification request, Chris. You may post your guesses in the open, right here in this thread.
PS- I will add that Grandmomma, the house, the woods we used to play in behind it, and I understand the whole neighborhood are gone now; the...
Greetings, CT colleagues. Happy Thanksgiving! This week, I will celebrate my 40th anniversary as a collector. On Thanksgiving Day, November...
Initial impression: 40 and 53. Second thought, to be conservative: 35 and 45. These thoughts were before I read your post revealing the grades....
I love the reverse. I hadn't seen this type before. The obverse exhibits some die fatigue, but is pretty darned sharp. Why do coins of...
Thanks, and sorry. Hanging out on the PCGS forums for 15 years as I have, one tends to develop a certain type of jargon. Sometimes I forget I'm...
I don't usually keep my costs a state secret. I paid $240-ish for the second (Teutonic Order) piece and $480-ish for the fifth (the Brabant gold...
I will keep my eyes open for you, though I don't do as much with US material nowadays. Though when I do do anything with US coins, I like old...
Hmm. Toughie. You've got me there. Does look vaguely familiar (-ish), though. I can see why your mind would go to 17th century Hungarian...
Here is the PCGS cert page on that French pattern.
Hmm. I think maybe my old original pix of all the holey garment ensemble might be gone. Bummer. :( They were taken two hard-drive crashes ago,...
The first you mentioned is a ca. 1615 quarter-thaler of the Teutonic Order. That, as it happens, does have a writeup, over on CU (though the...
Just some activity from the past few months. New or new-ish additions to the Box of 20, which as of this post has not been updated. [IMG] [IMG]...
Just some activity from the past few months. New or new-ish additions to the Box of 20, though I have not yet had time to do the Herculean...
There are old pix buried somewhere in my eleventy-five gazillion Photobucket images (all untagged and filenames forgotten, naturally), and...
So do we all, I'd imagine, but not all of us can afford to. But if you can, you should! Which is not to suggest that I mind circulated coins. I...
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