Thank you again for handling all the logistics.
Thanks. It was indeed expensive- in fact my second most expensive coin in 47 years of collecting. (*This is my first most expensive of all time.)
Love that Antony denarius!
I sure wish my recipient would post. Hasn’t been seen yet. Hopefully he’s having a good time celebrating.
It happens. Which is one reason it is best to keep expectations low, I suppose, and also validation for the secret principle, so there is no...
I couldn’t do that, especially after our Thanksgiving this year. But it is certainly beautiful, and lends a patina of old fashioned beauty to...
Per @Joshua Lemons in the introduction: $125 spent would put you on the generous side. But that’s where I’d prefer to be. It’s about what I...
Nice little Constans! I’d have ranked the Guatemalan coin higher. I just like it. The two-headed magician’s Morgan is cool too.
Excellent point. You are of course correct about the strip. And you found a photo of such a strip. I searched for one in vain.
I love those old British proof sets with the purple insert and the rectangular mint medal in them. So handsome.
Wow. I wasn’t expecting to see any Bust halves.
It is a clipped planchet. While that’s an error that’s worth a bit of premium on more modern, uniform machine-made coinage, it is quite common on...
Hope you’re having a nice holiday!
FORVM’s list is a good clearinghouse for ancient coins. Not so much for World and US, I imagine.
I think what you have there is a regular 1944 copper cent that was plated with some kind of silvery colored metal. Look above GOD in the legend....
Easy test: does it stick to a magnet? A true 1944 steel cent would. Even if it passes the simple magnet test, I still have my doubts.
Whoop! Whoop! CircCam alert! Coingratulations, @Kasia - that is my favorite of anyone's Secret Santa gifts I've seen posted so far.
Boy, you're not kidding! :yack: Yeesh, look at how many fake 1909-S VDB cents this seller has actually sold! :banghead: I pity the poor fools...
Ooh! An 1853 A&R half! Sweet!
Honorable mention: This 1702 "Wildman" replaces another one of the same date which I purchased raw at the 2023 FUN show in January. The raw coin...
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