I’m listening to the Shelby Foote trilogy on audiobook right now. Very gradually, in small bits and pieces. Still in Volume 1.
I did know that. 1861-O halves were struck first under US authority, then by the state of Louisiana (after secession but before it joined the...
I did not know that. I imagined maybe the Mint officials had pulled up stakes after secession and left, taking the bullion with them.
Well, at long last, after coming up short time and time again at auction, I finally won my desired Julius Caesar denarius, for €300 below my max...
I think it was only in New Orleans, but I could be wrong.
Those are great. The Tuscany piastro especially. Love Cosimo’s ruffed collar, there. Imagine having to wear one of those silly things to be...
Cool looking site! Super sharp IHC! Great relics, too.
Actually, the late H. Glenn Carson, author of the classic book Coinshooting, which I mentioned earlier, was a Colorado digger. He made a number...
Oh, sure. Though hot rocks are not so much an issue in the soils I’ve encountered here in the SE. I suspect many of my disappearing signals were...
Bet that was a hot signal! Reminds me of a story I read somewhere (likely in H. Glenn Carson’s classic, Coinshooting) about a fella in the old TR...
Re. this, again- [ATTACH] Ooh, yeah, she’s got a messed up, mutant, backwards hand, too, doesn’t she? LOL I immediately thought that image was...
No, I was talking about Kentucky’s “spider” on the dollar bill, which I do not see. I see the “face” in my own image of the faux-marble bathroom...
It’s faux-marble wallpaper, so the image repeats several times.
Don’t see it.
I know nothing about the Gepids, but that’s a sharp siliqua. The lettering is much clearer than I’d expect on a Germanic coin of the era. It...
Maybe, at the rate he’s going. And since he’s in NYC. Otherwise, I think silver dollars circulated a bit more out West than they did here on the...
@paddyman98 - where’s the post where you dug that Barber half? That’s awesome! I must have missed that. Bet you were excited! I only dug one...
That was a fun day. :) Not my greatest finds of all time, though some fun goodies did come up. I do think this is probably the best (most...
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I learned how to pronounce that one thanks to Bill Kurtis in an episode of Cold Case Files. Kinda sounds like “why name me”.
Separate names with a comma.
