Heck, I will admit I am jealous of many coins here. @Alegandron has a Shapur I tetradrachm I would love to own. :)
First, I am glad others are telling Donna just to keep it so it's not just me. Second, @Nathan B. , I miss every coin I have ever sold. I don't...
Legal tender is simply what is decreed by the government as legal money. In the US, that includes what you mention. Coinage acts declare that the...
:) Um yeah, there at times have been remarks on the other forums. Like I said, I don't get mad, preferring to see humor in hobby banter, but I...
Fair enough you have personal experience in SENDING them to melters. I knew some dealers who BOUGHT the same coins. :) Many times "melters" are...
Btw, I think you and Doug are misinterpreting "melt". A dealer over 30 years ago told me almost no coins get melted, (especially US), since they...
Might be interesting to use for ancients, but the best ancient fakes nowadays are melting down real ancients to make the planchets. They got...
I would guess this is a core of a fourree. They would make planchets of silver coated base metal and strike them. Many such coins the silver fell...
Everyone here has probably heard of Arab-Byzantine coins that were struck when the Muslims took over former Byzantine territories. Same can be...
You think the hair above the ear is wear? Could be. I was thinking softness. I hate grading from photos and not in hand.
I disagree with the word "clipped". That connotes that the planchet was like that when struck. I think its more of a broken/chipped coin. No...
Nice reverse, CC mint, pretty color, I would not think below 63, maybe higher due to color and MM.
I like the Franklin silver dollar a lot, and a lot of the APE proof designs.
I did, how dare you challenge our traditions and sacrificial ceremonies! :)
Yeah, but that is not a world I wish to live in. We all need thicker skin. We all need to laugh at ourselves. I do. Sometimes when I am knee deep...
Maybe "Byzantine" in the sense these were made after Constantine. I see no explanation for them really except contemporary to the images struck on...
Wow. I guess PC correctness extends to coin forums now. You say you are new, you haven't seen good natured ribbing that goes back and forth....
I understand. Let's take a normal coin show. Let's make it a big one to have the best chance to have ancients there. Maybe FUN or ANA. Ok, let's...
But world coins, like ancients, can be different animals than US in regards to applicability of pop reports. I have some ancients better than any...
To be fair @baseball21 I posted this in the Ancients section out of respect for others. Of course everyone can choose how to collect, of course...
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