Possibly somebody was testing their chop mark punch. :)
Many of the coins in the picture are in NGC grading slabs. :)
[IMG] United States Cent 2025 Privy mark on reverse upper left :)
This coin looks like the posted coin: Silver 2-ghani of Ala al-Din Mohamed (1296-1316), Delhi Sultanate, India (Tye 419.1) (The years are CE or AD...
I could not find anything about his story of the Antoninus Pius denarius found at Monticello. :)
My Centennial Year trade dollar: [IMG] United States Trade Dollar 1876-S Silver, 38.0 mm, 27.04 gm :)
One can head "North to Alaska". :)
Operation Washtub: How the Air Force and FBI Recruited Alaskans to Resist a Soviet Invasion From 1951 to 1959, the FBI and Air Force ran...
Monaco is a small principality located on the French Riviera and has been independent for a long time. It mints it's own coins, and by agreement...
POST MING DAMAGE Another fiendish plot by Ming the Merciless! :)
The 1954 British film "Fire Over Africa" is about glamorous woman secret agent Joanna Dane (Maureen O'Hara) who is assigned to identify the head...
From the LM Collection: [IMG] Faustina Junior Denarius - Ceres Silver, 18 mm, 2.33 gm, Catalog: RIC 669 Struck: AD 161-164 Rome Obverse: Faustina...
On July 20, 2024, I found an interesting book, Numismatic Rogues Gallery, on the Newman Numismatic Portal (NNP) which was about criminals...
[IMG] Elongated Cent - Monterey, California Coinstar find in 2018 The coin is recent zinc model as it weighs 2.5 grams and was probably sold at...
Two more Mauritius coins: I just had to get one of these: [IMG] Mauritius 10 Rupees 1971 - Independence and Dodo bird Copper-nickel, 35.0 mm,...
Many of these coins are mentioned in Robert Louis Stevenson's famous 1883 novel Treasure Island. It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones's...
In the 1960's I collected world coins and owned the book A Catalog of Modern World Coins by R. S. Yeoman, seventh edition, published in 1967....
Mine was "backorder" a couple of days ago and today I received an email that it was shipped. :)
"Pompeii the New Dig" - "House of Treasures" is a 2025 documentary which is being shown on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) television stations...
I would suspect that the show's producers would have a hard time getting a real one. :)
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