I will see your French and Dutch and raise you German. :D ... Just give me a few years.
100 yen, 1959. Showa year 34. I don't share GD's fear. :D
How about an English angel? Tell some more about that one, at least. Which Charles is it?
Have anything Merovingian? :eat:
This is a rough part in the semester - I have papers and exams coming out my wazoo. But the good news is, my research is *almost* done. Post some...
Me too. Scary how many of us come from that year!
They're the same type. Remember, each die was hand cut, often by a different celator. Styles can deviate greatly in the same issue. I've seen a...
Great Britain, 1946. I don't follow these too closely, so I can't give a real accurate value. But I'd be surprised if it was more than a dollar or...
Sorry, but its a cast fake.
Certainly does. Lovely tale.
First one is an Aurelian antoninianus, with Fortuna Redux reverse. The mintmark isn't visible on the reverse, so thats all I can say. The second...
Lol, well. Let's try to calculate the face value. It circulated at four to the denarius. Assuming the denarius was able to continue circulating...
How does that stink? You hold in your hand the largest coin minted in the name of a great philosopher-emperor almost two millenia ago. That enough...
Here's another specimen of the same type as yours: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s5011.html#RIC_0948 Here's a place to read more about...
Nevermind, found it. Its a Roman coin, a bronze sestertius of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Struck between December 166 to December 167 in Rome....
size?
A rather nice one, too!
A line on the edge is usually an imitation of a cast. Can you get a picture?
1894
You have to do a very precies job of removing it, then seal the coins with some sort of wax.
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