Those large gold 2 and 5 pound coins are impressive, especially in nice grade. My 5 pound coin came from a Davisson's auction many a moon ago....
Very nice examples! Are you collecting by mint/date or by mint only?
Nice coins, Donna. I once had a Victoria 5 pounds gold coin that I sold several years ago, along with an early guinea of George III and a noble...
That is a very nice lion daalder! The seller was correct. TRAN stands for the province of Overijssel or "across the IJessl", a tributary of the...
Here are a few more lion daalders that I photographed today. The first is a very rare Zeeland lion daalder of 1589. Later dates do exist for...
Thought I'd add a Cyzicus follis. Year 16, 542 AD Officina B Sear 207 18.03 grams [ATTACH]
That's a very nice coin, minted during the early years of Holland's war against Spain, a war that would last until 1648. Lion daalders were...
That's an exquisite coin! I'd like to see an enlarged photo of it. Listen, a little perspective helps in this kind of situation. We all get...
Here's another LD that I photographed today. I spend a lot of time trying to get the best resolution, but I'm usually not satisfied with the...
Probably about as rich as these characters: [ATTACH]
A good number of my purchases have been through eBay, with dealers I know and trust. Otherwise, my acquisitions are through auction, auction...
Very nice! Me likeeee!
That's an excellent price for an excellent coin! My least costly Byzantine gold coin is this crude AV hyperpyron of Andronicus II and Michael IX,...
$24, not including sales tax. [ATTACH]
That's a beautiful coin! Your coin is one of the lucky ones. It is not corroded and the strike is very good. Yes, it has been cleaned, as noted...
That's true - the knight's head is different stylistically, but the coin's legends seem similar to the Transylvanian coin, and the treatment of...
My main go-to book on these and other coins cataloged by Davenport is an old reference published by Krause in 1982. It is compact and quite...
That must have been a great buy for you, at the price of an Utrecht daalder! I noticed that Heritage made the same error at one of their auctions...
There is a gargantuan Ukrainian proof silver kilo 100 Hryven that is up for bidding at Roma's XXIV Auction on March 28th. There are no bids so...
Yes, imitation is the term to use for these non-Dutch lion daalders. They were imitated for pretty much the same reason that other types of coins...
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