Forgive me for straying outside my usual home territory in Foreign Coins. I am in the UK and have picked up this Quarter with a whole load of...
Sorry - not even nearly! You need to get a super macro lens on it and post a picture of just the ship. (I have tried saving your picture and then...
Another job lot from an auction - I paid about USD75 for the lot but I hope some of them are better than scrap? [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I think I have found the answer to the dot under the lighthouse variety here:...
... and does this count as an H to the left in 1881H farthing? [ATTACH]
Inspired by your post started having a closer look at some of my farthings and spotted this extraneous spot on my 1863. Anything to write home...
OK - British Sixpence 1711: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Not brilliant I know, but best I have for that year.
Seems to have gone very slow here - I will keep moving it on a year every 24 hours or so unless anyone objects? Here is a British Shilling 1712....
Thank you @muhfff for all that! Certainly helps enormously. I have been in discussion with Dix Noonan and Webb (Coin auctioneers) in London and we...
British Crown 1713 - nice big silver coin! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Nice coin! I will be interested to see what the colour is when you have it in hand - it could be right - being copper you can get interesting...
Glad you like it! The 1847 Gothic Crown was a one off year - only 8000 or so made with some varieties. They made an alternative "young head" crown...
I've already posted my favourite milled coin - at the other end of the scale is this, my favourite hammered coin - King Athelwulf of Wessex circa...
Our time machine seems to be slowing down! Herewith my contribution to 1714 and the first of Queen Anne - a shilling again: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
OK, here they are: Livonia Schilling: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Riga Bishopric: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Livonia Order: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Riga Plettenberg:...
An antiques dealer has left me with 8 coins from the above Countries/States and asked me to sell them for her. (She bought them years ago as part...
When I acquired this one I did a lot of searching for a complete match. The obverse appears everywhere with a variety of different reverses. The...
Just dug out this French Medallion - to their Fire Service I think. Not sure the women are sufficiently scantily clad, but a handsome thing...
I guess this counts in the diaphanous female category - 1929 British Trade Dollar. (Posted previously in Latest acquisitions I think.) [ATTACH]...
That of course would be the next question! Acetone certainly wont shift it. (In fact I think Acetone is over-rated - it may move grease but not...
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