Doug - we disagree only on terminology. The point I was trying to make is that the "silvered" issues were created in a completely different method...
Jlblonde - Where did you come up with that "medieval resilvering" scenario? Pretty imaginative! But completely fantasy, unfortunately. The...
Hm, I think I know a few girls like this coin...
Only the 1918-S mule (Lyman 4.08b) is rare. The obverse die of a 20 centavo coin was muled onto a nickel planchet with a 5 centavo reverse die....
[IMG] ROME. temp. Hadrian-Antoninus Pius. Circa AD 120-161 Æ Quadrans (16mm, 2.94 g, 7h) Rome mint Petasus Winged caduceus; S C flanking...
And I still will! Gotta keep you in line. :)
"Archaeologist" is a word that a publication like The Telegraph will throw around rather easily. Try this on for size:...
Not archaeologists - a salvage company. There is a major difference there.
L DEKATOV is year 10. This will tell you more about canopic jars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopic_jar
An Umayyad bronze fals from the 8th century AD. I can't read the mind name from this picture, though.
I checked the plates in Dattari (Savio)- its virtually identical to the specimen there (5417).
What makes you say that? Its perfectly genuine. LostDutchman - what was your process when you tried to ID this? Describe it to us!
Archaeology is the study of past human culture via the material record. What you're thinking of here is paleontology. Still, neat coins!
It looks like a striking flaw to me, not a die variety. Allen doesn't record any overdates for 1917.
Not a die match - they have different control marks.
Both coins are attributed correctly - the B and X are control marks. There's quite a few of them, and Crawford doesn't assign catalog numbers for...
I must give my apologies! Even though I was there the whole week, I somehow completely failed to stop by your table. But I still managed to appear...
Why do you feel they are particularly easy to fake?
It is a bronze contemporary imitation of the coin that willieboyd2 posted.
The Japanese is one of the shin-kanei tsuho, from the Ashio mint. I do not yet have the specialist book for these coins, but it appears to be the...
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