Lovely coin. Thanks for sharing.
This thread inspired me to get back into my denár set. I've started posting them here: https://collectivecoin.com/Jaelus/dy1tShkYxacx7VQjtipR...
Not necessarily. Since Stacks acquired the site they have been talking about updates. I was hoping the instability was due to initial maintenance...
Anyone know what's going on with CollectiveCoin? It's been loading unpredictably for the past day or two and today it's been down for maintenance...
Yet how many museums (likely including that one) have objects displayed that are on loan from private collections. It's an odd position.
This is the most important piece of advice in this thread. It's also not something you can just pick up and do. It takes years of study to get...
Here's an original. There were also modern official restrikes made....
A new fake I haven't seem before. But a couple popped up on eBay. Sad to see the bid go even this high....
Why not just purchase foreign coins at auction through a domestic dealer acting as an intermediary?
How do you define modified? Are you looking for existing types that were struck on alternate planchets? Would you also count new emergency types...
Last coin I had get stuck in the ISC-NY it never came out. That was over a year ago. Customs said it was in the USPS' custody, USPS said it was in...
OMC! Love it. My biggest OMC is the only remaining hole in my Second Hungarian Republic (1946-1949) type set: Aluminum 5 Fillér (1948) KM-535....
Great eye appeal.
I've submitted cheap common coins for the purpose of consistency of storage and presentation within a broader type set. To make it worthwhile, I...
That coin in the ring is still going to have condition issues on the exposed face from being polished over time, even if they remove it from the...
Different dies. Only some of the devices will be on the hub, the rest, including the date and mm are engraved on the die. As this was done by...
I contacted the Vienna mint about these pieces, but I'm not hopeful of a response. We will see.
Absolutely. I know plenty of collectors that do this. If I buy something with unknown provenance that is a substantial piece I also research past...
Peter Tompa said he posted a reply on here as a guest (he doesn't have an account). Do we need moderator approval to make the post visible?
Pete is a good friend of mine. I was just talking to him about this ruling last night, as he did a talk about what to know when purchasing coins...
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