There's a good reason for that. The Jersey penny was 1/13 of a shilling in the 1840s due to exchange rates with the French livre. There were 26...
And that's one of the reasons I said they're seductive. PCGS PR65BN
Matte proof Lincolns prove to be rather seductive, especially when attractive. Something about the combination of the latent color and the...
It's not VAM 1. You have doubled 880, possibly also the 1. The first 8 appears to be doubled on the right inside and the lower right outside of...
This came in the mail today. The antiqued look adds a nice touch. [IMG]
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I'm not aware of any deliberate detail added for the purpose of preventing counterfeiting. The level of detail of the designs, process of die...
I would have guessed A was bad, C was good, B not sure. I took a look at authentic ones on CoinFacts to see what the date should look like. The...
They have their place. I bought this for the 1997 slot in my prime number set because I think it is the earliest US Mint attempt at the concept,...
Bought this one for my Prime Number Set recently. [IMG]
One of those dates is on my want list for Zeeland. Yours is a great looking specimen.
The Notre Dame colonial coinage page on these also mentions Nijmegen making them in 1692. Are these known to exist?
I'm going to start with mint, then maybe design type. We'll see where it takes me after I get a nice Overijssel, West Friesland, Friesland, and...
Here are 5 1/2 more of mine: 1601 Holland [IMG] 1641 Zwolle[IMG] 1648 Kampen [IMG] 1649 Utrecht [IMG] 1651 Gelderland [IMG] 1597 Holland 1/2...
Is there a good standard reference to Lion Dollars?
I was going to say some of the lettering was in the style of West Friesland. The "TRA" typically means Utrecht, but there was no shield mint mark...
These were crudely struck on uneven planchets and often have seemingly arbitrary rotation.
Yes. This became a standard silver coin of trade throughout much of the world at the time, and was used in the American colonies, as well. It...
Deventer is one of the tougher localities for these. [IMG]
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