This was a similar sort of deal for me. At the price offered, I couldn’t turn it down. Essentially I paid a fair price on the owl alone and the...
I just bought this four-coin lot from a member here, at a price I found difficult to refuse. In 46 years of collecting, this will be my first...
Here’s a bonus chance in the drawing for @BurrosCoins’s nephew, then. :)
Belated reply @longshot - I like your Judaea Capta with its colorful cabinet toning. It’s a tad nicer than the one I had in my old Twelve Caesars...
Here’s Osiris on a canopic jar. [ATTACH] Next: an Alexandrian tetradrachm of a different ruler.
Not much silver in this one, but I will roll out a true silver coin for Round 8.
Look at the date on the coin in the pictures above. Something (maybe reflections) makes it look like it says “2319”. Been doing a bit of time...
I guess what you found was the hobby itself, and perhaps some appreciation of the stuff you’ve already got. If so, that’s pretty priceless.
Oh, that landscape is lovely!
My birthyear. :)
It's a lovely coin. Stick with the PCGS photos.
One does have to give them credit for pretty names.
Greece (Spartan colony in Taras, Calabria, Italy): silver drachm, ca. 302-281 BC [IMG] Obverse: Head of Athena right, wearing helmet with figure...
@Paddy54 - congrats on finding a decent looking 1851-O 3c silver. That's another on my list for someday.
I finally acquired a coin with a pedigree to the John Quincy Adams collection. I'm supposedly a descendant of the 6th US president, and had been...
I didn’t put enough exclamation points. WOW!!!!!!!!!! There, that’s better. :)
Fish. I’ve got a sturgeon here. [ATTACH] A griffin too, so let’s go there next: griffin.
Indeed. Sad but true. But a tale as old as time. Some things never change.
There have been those bars with tungsten inside, though. Dunno if there have been any gold-plated tungsten coins found.
Interesting idea. Seeing that old Whites ID meter brings back memories. Say, speaking of testing gold, what's going on in your avatar picture?...
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