Yes. Polish. Augustus III (of Saxony) King of Poland from 1733 to 1763. As to the coin. Is this some kind of competition you are holding or...
:D Well the coin is a nice `robust' yet rustic design....and silver so at these prices you can't go wrong. They sit well as a trio too ;)
Thanks, but I got my set well over a decade ago...and I paid a far heftier price than you did. As I said, not the shrewdest investment I ever made...
You do realise I hope that these coins a worth a heck of a lot more than $10 -$15 in that condition . Then again, maybe i'm out of touch. I got...
The French mint produces exceedingly nice coins these days, and these two are no exceptions. I am envious, but only up to a point. My problem with...
I see what Christian means. The image you have created is a `mirror image'. If you look at the item the image is back to front, as is the...
Does it have a ship on the reverse like the original posters? If so, whatever else it may be, it most certainly isn't a coin. This has already...
Its just that i've got too much time on my hands at present. :-) Ian `Between assignments'
It looks like a Shrewsbury mint issue (Coincraft ref: C1HC-580) which is listed as £800 in VG and £1,500 in Fine. Obverse image is not good enough...
That's good to know. :D I did a bit of colour correction on the basis of knowing that the background was white, and my concerns vanished just like...
I'm kind of hoping that the colour of the scan is off or that i'm seeing things that aren't there in the flesh as it were. For example...what's...
Allowing for regional variations in pronunciation, it was most definitely thrup'ney up here in Jockland. A guy from Colwyn Bay in Welsh Wales I...
Well now, exactly what kind of help are you looking for? If it's just a `where om earth is this from', then no problem. It's French Indo China...
nice coin.
The ones you have just shown are very obviously cast fakes / reproductions, but the problem with that is that they have been cast with the same...
You will find many ancient coins bearing test cuts and / or bankers marks. These were designed to expose the core of the coin rather than to...
No book on earth could possibly keep up with every piece of folly concerning the marking of coins. Let's face it, at one stage even some...
a case of you saying `pot ay- toes' when I say `tatties' . ;)
Pardon me for butting in on your response to Sylvester. It's just that you seemed to sidestep the response I provided. :o I'll say the following...
Ah....you have that in reverse. :) Chop marks are an oriental and later form of bankers marks, which have been around since the dawn of coinage...
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