There is nothing wrong with collecting US coinage, I have over 40 US AV coins/ same for world after 1453 when Mehmet II took down Constantinople....
Great history, awesome coin!!!!!
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Welcome Herodotus:) to the enlightened side of numismatics;)! John
Really nice find, beauty!
some more... AV Fanam ND Travancore/ Trivandrum Mint/ Rama Varma I 1758-98 AV Fanam ND Rajas of Thanjuvar/ Tanjore Mint/ Raja Sarabhaji I 1712-28...
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Thats the change coin I throw into a crockpot. I once saved up 8000 of them, rolled them up, took them to my bank to pay for a AV Roman aureus:)!
AV Stater ND Amphipolis Mint Philip III/ Kassander 321-17BC next theme: Herakles[ATTACH]
Yesterdays auction was depressing. Most coins where bid up way above estimates in last few minutes:( I wonder with stock markets tanking/ interest...
Beautifull coin, informative history Probably would have been better in long run to not have surrendered. The Russians where out of the War. The...
The Knights of St-John Hospitaliers fought in the Crusades alongside the Templars/ Teutonic Knights. These where the Pope's elite formations...
More India material:) French India/ Pondicherry AV Pagoda ND circa 1740-57[ATTACH]
Kingdom of Two Sicilies AV 3 Ducati 1818 Naples Mint Ferdinando IV[ATTACH]
Brazil Joao V AV 4000 Reis 1717-B Bahia Mint[ATTACH]
We do a lot of homemade baking/ cooking. We make most things from scratch. For example, I make my own cinnamon buns/ one batch =2 lbs of butter/...
I am still looking for a Sultani from Mehmet II myself. They are usually perfectly struck/ ones from Sulieman/ Selim I are crude.
The only food staple we hoard is butter. Four times a year the Metro store reduces Lactantia 1 lb. butter from $6.99 to $2.99/ so I get a case of...
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