Thanks for the info. :thumb: guy
Beautiful set! Question: Do people here collect Maundy sets? In an past post, someone mentioned that earlier Maundy coinage was used as...
After her first husband, the co-Emperor Lucius Verus, died in 168/169, would coins of the Empress still be minted with her loss of status?...
Nice coin and nice piece of history. The history behind Lucilla is a tragic one. She was forced into two marriages of political convenience...
Let me weigh in on plastobolsaphobia (fear of plastic containers): Some coin collectors feel that when any ancient coin is slabbed, they lose the...
If the production of these replica coins is "perfected" one day, I wonder whether the slabbed coins from a time before this "near perfection" will...
This subject was broached before and I quickly dismissed it as too futuristic. I'm not sure anymore:...
This recent notice, I think, reflects NGC's supportive attitude to World coins (as opposed to viewing World coins as a necessary nuisance):...
Well put. Didn't PCGS originally only do US coins? I know PCGS was slow to promote world gold. I don't think PCGS does world medals, yet....
I may agree that slabbing most Ancients is an unnecessary expense. But "depressing on anything more than 200 years old"? Interesting. I...
There are some of us who can only afford the smaller denomination of the coinage we study. So, unfortunately, the only Queen Anne cooper is the...
What I great coin and what a great piece of history. :thumb: I always have trouble keeping those pesky usurpers (and usurpers of usurpers)...
I'm impressed that NGC has ventured (with some success) in certifying medals and jetons. I think a great image on a medal or jeton best...
Thanks for reading the post everyone. I best enjoy numismatics (and possibly the only time) when there is a connection with history. guy
(Here's an early rough draft of an article I might post. Thoughts? Criticisms?) When I saw this 1714 medal of George I of Great Britain, I was...
[ATTACH][ATTACH] Gotta love those Queen Anne medals. guy
The fact that Vittorio Emanuele II insisted on "the second" (instead of the more appropriate title of Vittorio I for the first King of Italy) did...
Nice coin. I've frequently referred to this simple, but helpful chart when trying to keep the relationships among the Severan family...
Geez. They guarantee attributions? And how do they do that? Would they pay the poor kid who potentially could spends hundreds too much on this...
Thank you for recognizing the uniqueness of this coin. According to The Standard Catalog of World Coins there were only 12,000 minted. The more...
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