[IMG] Roman Empire Sestertius - Emperor Nero - Roma Seated Bronze, 33 mm, 22.48 gm, Catalog: RIC 356 Struck: AD 67 Rome Obverse: Laureate head...
Commodus' last year coin: [IMG] Commodus Denarius Libertas Silver, 17 mm, 3.32 gm, Catalog: RIC 241 Struck: AD 192 Rome Obverse: Laureate head...
This kind of thing happens all the time in Israel. It is less common here in California. :)
Another one: [IMG] Great Britain Crown 1662 - Charles II (1649-1685) Silver, 40 mm, 29.70 gm :)
Interesting coincidence. :)
My grandmother Elsa (1896-1978) was a coin collector. She was my mother's mother and lived in Chicago. From the late 1940's to the early 1950's...
Honorary or "posthumous" pardons are worthless. :)
New Zealand is a strange country. They have more cases of Legos up the nose than Coronavirus cases. :)
An old design returns: [IMG] France 50 Francs 1974 Silver, 41 mm, 29.88 gm A familiar looking statue: [IMG] France 100 Francs 1986 Silver, 31...
They go on sale at the US Mint website today:...
I would leave the coins in the slabs and sell them as is. Someone may want the slabs to complete their collection. :)
Thank you for the information. By the way, I have had this coin since 1965 when I was a teenager and found it in a coin dealer's foreign coin...
This British India quarter anna appears to have a brockage error on the reverse: [IMG] British India Quarter Anna 1907 Bronze, 25 mm, 4.83 gm,...
The Sphinx: [IMG] Antoninus Pius Provincial Egypt Bronze Drachm - Sphinx Obverse: Laureate head left, "AYT K T AIL ADP ANTWNINOC CEB EYC"...
About four years ago one of my relatives by marriage told me that her aunt had died. The aunt was elderly, had dementia, and had been buying...
I also have a Bohemond coin but not in as good shape: [IMG] Crusader State of Antioch, Bohemond III, AD 1163-1201 Billon silver, 17 mm, 0.59 gm :)
Islamic Mughal India coins. Some of them: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-to-do-at-home-mughal-islamic-coins-from-india.357730 :)
A French gros from Louis XI, the "Spider King" of France (AD 1461-1483), who kept wild turkeys as pets: [IMG] France Louis XI Gros de Roi...
This Coin World article may answer the 1964 clad coins question:...
Fascinating article. I have been reading Steven Runciman's History of the Crusades but haven't got to that part yet. :)
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