For the record, JB on this 1759 half escudo refers to the two “ensayadores”, (assayers, mint-masters) J for Joseph Tramullas y Ferrer and B for...
Venus Cloacina reminds me of a piece of late 19th century doggerel, said to have been written on the door of a toilet in an Oxford college: Fair...
Looks genuine to me. My 2016 copy of Spinks lists the 1834 2/6d at £475 for EF.
Just a small point, the " Unready" in Aethelred's name does not mean that he wasn't ready. The anglo-saxon unraed means "badly advised", while his...
I am reminded of the epithet that Tacitus wrote to describe the emperor Galba in AD 68 : capaz imperii, nisi imperasset - roughly, "he would have...
The 1923 South African sovereign is a very hard date to find. My British Commonwealth Coins lists a mintage of only 719 coins
Excellent article! Just one minor criticism, it's populace, not populous
One shilling and sixpence, or 18 pence, produced by the Bank of England between 1812 an 1816. There are also 3 shilling bank tokens from the same...
Not mine, unfortunately, it belongs to a friend who asked for help in identifying it. A bronze As, weighing 17.1 gms, Kelse mint (an Iberian...
I know absolutely nothing about chopmarks, but this 8R looks genuine to me. The initials I. J are correct for this coin's date, they correspond to...
It is not an exact copy of the 1820 tyoe if George IV half crown. The most obvious difference occurs on the obverse. On the 2/6d coin the end of...
My Spinks English and UK Coins specifically warns that there are modern counterfeit George V wreath crowns dated 1927 and 1933
My book on British & Commonwealth coins makes no mention of a double strike on the 1943 silver (.800) threepenny bit
As from 1923, all S. African coins were produced in the Pretoria mint, which has also produced coins for the British Commonwealth (West Africa,...
And the arms are those of the city of Nantes
Ref that French medal (not a jeton, I think), Monsieur Gellée (or Gellé) de Premion was the mayor of the French city of Bantes in 1771, before the...
Just a thought. If so many double eagles, Saints etc are melted down, doesn't that mean that in the long run those remaining logically become...
As I commented, I have absolutely no knowledge of the coins of Poland and the Baltic countries, and practically nothing either of the early...
I am not familiar with coins from Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, but on GH#75's coin I can clearly read REG, short for REGINA, queen, so we...
Ca Nl Ma stands for Ceca Nacional Manilla -National Mint Manilla
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