Read Robert Tye's essay on Wang Mang's coins. ;) Wang Mang tried to implement a bronze fiat currency system that would be equivalent to paper...
Hartill notes the calligraphy is in the Jade Chopstick (Yu Zhu) style. It is close enough to seal script for me to call it as such.
These are both new purchases. There are three coins in the set, but I have only bought two of them. I am eying an example of the third, but monies...
I still think the dipped coin looks butt-ugly, and I would pay EF money for it, but there are the investors that buy the slab and not the coin....
Fair enough. I have seen the Wang Mang ones as well, but a little less regularly. The shattered Wang Mng moulds make sense because they were...
About those Si Zhu moulds, have you ever questioned their authenticity? I see them all of the time, much more so than actual Si Zhu coins. In...
Thank you for the clarification on technical terminologies. ;)
I'll never get a 1916 D Merc because, frankly, I don't want one. It is not rare enough to justify the cost.
Here is a new purchace for me: a casting sprue for Wu Zhus. When these coins were cast, what was produced was a "tree" of coins with the main...
Your pictures are overexposed. I'm at AU something or another RB until you prove otherwise.
Still waiting for the right coin to spend my $27 in eBay bucks on.
Hey, it could be worse. I bid against myself in a Baldwin's auction a few months ago and doubled the cost of my purchase. I sold one of the coins...
Me tooting my own horn: [ATTACH] And here is a picture of the smallest ban liang I own, at least out of the 58 of them in my collection. ;) And...
Silver was mostly used in ingots and things called sycees, as was gold, but anything ancient is incredibly rare. We know that there was an ancient...
It will be glued and painted over. It has already been broken in the handle, and that was expertly repaired. Since it was already broken, I can't...
It arrived today. I opened the package, and the knife came out in two pieces. :drowning:I have contacted the seller as I couldn't think of...
A BOEING COIN CLUB?!?!? :woot: SIGN ME UP!!!
I just scored this one off of eBay for about a fifth of the going rate. It looks authentic to me, but I welcome any opinions from my fellow...
The pointed-foot spades are much harder to find than their square-foot relatives. Here is a chance to get one for your collection. As always, I...
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