Are you intending to breed them now that you have a pair? :-) That's an enticing coin. Nice catch. Ian
That's the brit's for you, during the Boer war. I've a couple of the Freddy Kruger 1/-'s so treated. one with him wearing a smokers hat and jaket,...
So I really do need to update my Krause's. My edition has it at $35 in VF - $60 in EF. My doesn't time fly, and prices rise! (mumble...
Just to add a little to GD's attribution. That one was struck at Posen Mint in Poland. Although it isn't in all that brilliant a condition it is...
Spot on with the attribution GD., but gosh have prices moved on that much? Time to update my copies of Krause if that's the state of play. My...
A superb example of the type GD. Nice one! At one time I was interested in the cob coinage but the opportunity for me at the time to actually...
To save repeating what has already been said about jetons have a look at the thread entitled `1680 French coin w/ U.F.O.?' commencing 4th January...
There are silver jetons for every occasion..... ;-) [IMG] [IMG]
The first one you mention is not a coin. it is a fantasy piece. The second one however IS a bona fide coin, even though the chances of it being...
I'd go with that. Finding a perfect example is a bit more difficult than finding one with an error, although Scott's one is a bit more of an...
Hi Scott, Hey mate, I never once mentioned brass. :-) I'll tell you what though, by the time they got to the `Constitutional Monarchy'...
To me it falls into the category of `mis-strike'. It tells you a bit about how coins are made and how things can go wrong, as well as providing an...
Third time was indeed lucky for you. :-) You don't come across many of them in your loose change now do you ? ;-) Nice catch. Ian
I recall alerting people to the first issue and telling them that they should buy it for all the reasons i've already mentioned. Seems that those...
If you have a closer look at it, it is only the niobium centre (obverse) that is inverted. The outer (silver) rim is not inverted. ;-) The...
....I hear ya bro', but I just don't live up to the accolade of `Inadvertent Inverter' on this occasion. :-) The coin is depicted exactly as...
Hi Terry, I'm from Jockland. The only euros i've bothered myself with are the Austrian bi-metallic silver /niobium 25 euro coins. This will...
Looks to me like a classic example of a partially filled die. That is, some grease or other material (or a combination) has embedded in the die...
Too true it is! I don't have it though (another book loaned out and never returned) I just have the usual 1789 onwards which doesn't even mention...
That definition (unless i'm taking the ambiguity to extreme) would apply to all modern US $ and 1/2$ commemoratives, proof sets and BU sets,...
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