Emperor Charles V: [IMG] City of Besançon silver Carolus 1542 Silver, 19mm, 1.44gm Obverse: Crowned bust of Charles V facing left / CAROLVS V...
I received a 2018 Apostle Islands quarter yesterday. :)
400 Pages! [IMG] Order of DeMolay membership coin Bronze, 31mm, 12.40gm Obverse: Figure of Jacques De Molay facing and holding cross, no...
The book Into the Silence - The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis (published 2011) is about the three British...
Welcome. :)
Photobucket’s experiment with being a $399.99 premium service is over, and so too is the tenure of the CEO who led it. The Denver-based photo...
How would one know it was real? Because Bigfoot would be holding it. :)
I am still waiting for a reply to my request to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Prohibition....
After a drought of some weeks, this appeared: [IMG] United States cent 1927-D Now to go out to my favorite speakeasy and see what the rumrunners...
It looks real but worn. Some 1920's and 1930's commemoratives were released as circulation coins. :)
These items are well struck and must have been expensive to make. I wonder if the Vienna Mint has records (if they were actually struck there). :)
Does anyone know how did Numista come up with the AD year 1965 for the AH year 1352? "** Exonumia ** - Fantasy issues - Tarim"...
I have one of these items, acquired in the 1960's from a California coin dealer's "junk box". [IMG] 23mm, 3.95gm, metal appears to be...
The coin is a fantasy Arabian 1 Dinar coin. The date is AH 1352 (AD 1933). Made at the Vienna Mint in 1965 by somebody named Bernard O'Hea,...
Here is an article from Numismatic News on these items which uses the word "novodel" along with photographs:...
Doctor Thomas Dooley was a celebrity when I was in junior high school in the early 1960's. There was a curious incident where I filled out a...
My bad. :)
When I saw the title "silver penny" I thought the thread was about a medieval coin. :)
Here's an Ebay seller attempting to sell the silver Liberty Bell Mint medal....
I get vertigo just looking at the picture Just think of the fun Alfred Hitchcock would have had at Stone Mountain. :)
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