Beautiful portraiture. Greek coins, especially from Sicily, have to be said to be the most beautiful of all coins. However, I have to give best...
OP, I think the box of 20 idea comes from that is how many slabs fit into a standard PCGS or NGC box. The idea is your whole collection fits in...
I agree. Early Roman and some greek areas, (especially classically greek), are our main areas we know what the coins were called. Coins are...
I believe it was answered that Octodrachm in relation to the gold piece is really a lazy misnomer by some numismatists. It was called a Mnaieion...
Yeah, I never heard why they are not considered tetrastaters or something. The Ptolemaic empire was Greek, so you would think their gold coins...
OP, I do believe our very own supermoderator here @GDJMSP wrote a book on these actually. I would start with Doug if I ever wanted to know about...
Knowing this changes my mind a little. Seems like they bought it as the lower gold coin. So, they are not really out anything since they must have...
Storefront shops are mainly for buying nowadays. Gives non-coin collectors security they are selling grandpas coins to a legitimate business...
So what? You were able to find someone who wanted wood removed, and you provided labor and got to keep the wood. What does that have to do with...
I would report it sir. The German coin will be worth more than the Austria one, and I would let the dealer know they made a mistake. There is a...
Its definitely a surge in physical demand. This surge always creates physical shortages since they were not geared up for that demand. However,...
Same trope trotted out all of the time by the PM pushers. First, PM has not always been valued by humans. It was taught behavior, with the...
OP, I highly recommend reading Warren Esty's excellent essays concerning ancient coins. Bottom line to me is, it can be unique but if there is...
Btw OP, I hope you do not take offense of the questions. I am simply trying to figure them out as well. 6th and 7th century Central Asia is very...
Op, do you have a source why you think these countermarked issues were from the ransom payments? I have quite a few, and in hand their character...
Not a nickel guy really. I would say 65 or 65+ is not out of line. All of these No FS comments bother me a little. Sure, there is a couple of...
Outside of Deferred Comp and 401k, I maybe have 50% in land/rentals, 35% in stocks, 9% cash, and 5% pm. I am not sure since I normally do not...
I would clarify there was not an official US coin valued at 12.5 cents. There were, however, in colonial times one bits that circulated. I have a...
This is the most damning to me. 3 of the 4 7's pictured have the same serif in the front, but the second coin second 7 is off. The same 7 is off...
The first one does look incused date. Is that the deception, they overstrike into the planchet, or is this an optical illusion of photography?
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