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1/2 Piastre from cypress
looks like it might have been cleaned but from just one collectors (me) point of view...I wouldnt care or worry if it was...its a stunning coin.
I have never seen a peace medal for George I, only George II and III...can you show the other side?
A few of these have been posted here some time ago. It is a Nuremberg rechenpfennig (reckoning penny / counting token). Probably made by one...
yes, it looks very much like that one, I will take a picture of it in a bit and post it here...but it looks a lot like that one....with the...
whatever someone is willing to pay for it?
I own it and have read it, and I thought it was a great read but my wife says I read extremely boring books :) I am not saying coinage wasn't...
Yes, Roman soldiers received a base pay of roughly 200 to 500 Denarii a year depending on the time period and rank (sometimes much more,...
All this is, of course, just supposition but I feel this could very well be the case. If you were living in a thriving metropolis...one would...
dont get me wrong...I love a nice toned coin and would never dip a coin with attractive tone....but like others have said...its personal taste......
Toning is corrosion...which is damage...you can go in circles all day..its stupidity... Those coins have some horrible toning...I would cut that...
nice one :)
looks like a fake
I might not have been completely clear. I did not say people did not break a sestertius in half to get half the value in practice, in my original...
Like many said here...I have Bullion I buy only for investment... I have coins I buy for the love of coins. Will they sell for more than I...
I was given a medal by a friend who used to work for NASA and got the medal when he was on the launch team. I have it, never took a pic of it...
well, the coin is not a Dupondius but a Sestertius broken in half. A Serstertius is supposed to be worth 2 1/2 Asses. A Sestertius is made of...
The very obvious fake is supposed to look like an 8 Reale similar to this one: [img] needless to say the one pictured is just a modern...
nope, I have found myself in the position of defending eBay quite often on this and other forums. I have had a few frustrating experiences on ebay...
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