1900 Queen Victoria 1/2 Sovereign, showing old head. Newly purchased, and still in the mail. This will complement my Victoria young and Jubilee...
Yes, the US Mint did strike coins for other countries, until 1984....
Nice finds.
Nice example, especially good details of the Athena portrait.
Totally agree.
Agree. I think 1980-90s is the best time to buy Near Eastern antiquities. I regret selling my partial Sumerian cuneiform cone years ago. Can't...
Nice pickup, @caffers2. I am sure it will be a good addition to your antiquities collection. Do you collect Greek or Roman antiquities? I used to...
Nice coin. Hope you have better luck next time. The snipers may have read the same book, and determined to get the coin as well.
Congrats on your 15,000 posts, Mat. Happy Birthday! :happy: Don't have a Valerian II yet, but here is one I got from Ken earlier. [ATTACH]
PMD, by heat.
I think the first coin is called "Ban Liang". The wiki info is at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Liang
Thanks for your article. Great to know more about the background story of the medal.
Nice broadstruck and misaligned die strikes. I especially like these on state quarters and ATB. I have been trying to get an example on various...
I think the spiral palmette is not missing branches. Rather, this specific style has very thin plamette instead. The olive leaves are also...
Welcome to CoinTalk! I think your coin is just a regular half dollar. A real struck-on-Taiwan-$5 coin is slightly smaller than the regular half...
Congrats to your 20,000 post, @Bing. It is great idea to reward yourself with a new coin!
Thanks for your very informative post. A picture is surely worth a thousand words here. Now, my next target for the second half of 2020 is a Starr...
One of the major error coin dealers has an archive section in his website. His sold prices are there as well. It may not reflect the most current...
I think the owl design of your coin makes it fall between post Starr V and Mass Classical.
That surely is an excellent price for a group IV. :happy:
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