For those who don't know, the ancients forum does a Christmas time swap as well called Secret Saturnalia.
For the Maundy pennies, I'm just winging it. I'm working on the 19th and 20th century monarchs currently. For German States coinage I use the...
Very nice. I'm attempting, albeit very slowly, a side collection of Maundy pennies from as many rulers as I'm able. I'm primarily a German...
I ran through my messages and the secret Santa thread posts to mark off who has received and shipped their gifts. Looks as though most have sent...
Super cool! I have always liked the lettering on these older coins. I have a silver groschen from Meissen struck in the early 15th century and it...
Nice little mix there!
Paderborn [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Wurzburg [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Goslar [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Muhlhausen [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Hanau-Lichtenberg [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Munster...
I had two icg graded buffalo nickels and cracked them out to send to NGC. The Type 1 graded MS63 at ICG then MS62 at NGC. The Type 2 graded MS66...
For the Puerto Rican token, it simply isn't a type the company certifies. They have a list of tokens and medals they certify on the site. It is...
Looks like many of you have already received your gifts and many others have mailed theirs out! If you haven't already sent your gift, please get...
I was always a fan of the back of the book stamps, especially the revenue issues.
Very nice. It's hard to find these older issues with a cross-like design with a nice strike. Usually one side suffers with a lot of weakness....
It seems stamp collecting has declined. In fact, some coin dealers use common older postage to mail packages with, though it takes tons of them....
I do know that you can't sell them on eBay due to sanctions or something like that. Same goes for Cuban coins and a few others. Sometimes things...
This area of Europe and this time period can be tricky. In fact, some of the coins are nearly identical and it comes down to the legend to...
Formerly listed under Austria, now attributed to the German States, Silesia [ATTACH]
I am transitioning my collection to a mainly graded one and have learned to grade decently, though my collection is a world coin one. These days,...
A couple new purchases. A nice 12 Kreuzer from Hohnstein featuring a Wildman. Pretty sure this is KM# 40 due to the legend and lack of value....
I believe it's AU condition wise.
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