¡Feliz cumpleaños goossen, que tengas muy buen dia y espero que te regalen unas monedas buenas!
Thanks for asking, I appreciate your interest. I'm intrigued now, I will definitely bring them to the next show I go to. Rick Snow is scheduled...
Congrats on the set completion. I assume that damage is a cut to test purity/authenticity?
Glad you enjoyed it enough to do it again. Any event involving loads of kids with freedom to run at will at that age is bound to be chaos. If...
JonySky, Out of curiosity, how much of the book is dedicated to classical ancient coins? I ask because I do predominantly non-classical, if the...
For what it is worth, I found the following CT thread: http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=1883 Refer to a brief history, with pictures,...
Some members above have indicated that this is a fantasy piece, meaning it is fake and was created in modern times. The East India Company had...
Some I can make out, others are too corroded for my eyes, here is what I come up with. Wait for more experienced members in this field to weigh...
Thanks for the pics. Those examples look more like the classic 'woodgrain' texture, or perhaps somewhere in between the two. I have a few like...
The writing is a bit difficult to see from here. If you can get shots a bit closer it would help.
The coin with the dodo is great, and yes, extinct. The asiatic elephant, however, is still around, though most are domesticated.
Hope it works out Ben, that would be a great accomplishment!
To confrim what condor101 says, the Grellman book for the 1840-1857 cents is not cheap, I searched all over and the cheapest was $95 (not...
Thanks, Kanga, for the offer to ask a cent specialist. In response to your question, the blanks are annealed to make planchets, and also the...
With all the discussion on 'woodies', or Lincolns up to the 30's with the streaked, woodgrain look from improper alloy mixing, made me go back and...
Looks like mechanical doubling to me, nice one though. I also see doubling on the feathers. But wait for the experts to weigh in. What's going...
Here is some more detail, as posted by forum member spock1k for the other example: If you are in India then you would know that the word...
It is a 1 krona from Sweden, the both sides of the coin look normal for that issue (which ran 1976-1981).
One of these was just posted yesterday. It is an Indian temple token, the crouching figure on the reverse is Hanuman. Other dieties are also...
Its an Indian temple token, featuring Hanuman, the monkey god. It was almost undoubtedly minted recently.
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