Colonial/counter stamp/chop mark. I love most English coins before 1800 though, after that it gets boring.
Cool, any idea what the value might be?
Arrggg! I can't wait until tomorrow, here is my favorite pick up. I had a chance to look through a few coins in envelopes like this, all English...
Kudos to you! Good instinct.:)
I'll try, and hopefully I'll bring an exhibit too. By then Katy will have aged out of being in the YN section(Your show is after January right?),...
No, I can't tell what it is, but if I get out the patina it'd be easier. I just don't feel comfortable doing that though.
Probably, but I haven't tried to I.D. the Jap' and have got marginal results on the Chinese example. I know your pretty good, any ideas?
I love this piece, and unfortunately my pictures don't do it justice.
HERE WE GO!!! This is a French one sou which was counter marked with "RF" to designate that was meant for their colonies in the new world. These...
Yup, you forced me to put something up to tide you over until the main course!
He sounds like a certain part time silver dollar dealer/cellist I know... Who happens to have one of the top Condor token collections in the...
Oops, just saw that I left out the"an" in the title of thread.:oops:
Dang... That's cool.
...and he received a box of coins from a friend of his grandmother. Out of this box he pulled many cool coins and took crummy pictures of them....
Maybe we should go back to that...
My coins are so unorganized you wouldn't be able to find them!
Can't yet, the only half-decent camera my family has is my dad's cell phone, and since he's at work, you'll have to wait about two hours:(. I can...
Yup, there was an update a little while ago.
This thread will take a couple of days, as I am yet to get my self together from the awesome experience of the fall PNNA coin show. So for the...
Dang... Nice work and welcome the tha' Dark Side!
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