Part 5 (Coins 41-50) United States (New York): nickel silver private pattern cent, Feuchtwanger's Composition, 1837 [IMG] France: gilt bronze...
Part 4 (Coins 31-40) Swiss Cantons (Zürich): silver "city view" 1/2-thaler (1 gulden of 36 schillings), 1739 [IMG] Russia (Siberia): copper...
Part 3 (Coins 21-30) Scotland: silver penny of Alexander III, second coinage, ca. 1280-1286 [IMG] England: silver groat of Henry VI, ca....
Part 2 (Coins 11-20) Roman Egypt (Alexandria): billon tetradrachm of Hadrian, ca. 121-122 AD; canopic jar of Osiris [IMG] Roman Empire: bronze...
Part 1 (Coins 1-10) Greece (Ionia, Phokaia): electrum hekte, ca. 478-387 BC [IMG] Greece (Thrace, Pantakapaion): bronze Æ21, ca. 310-303 BC...
[IMG] July 2, 2022 What is an "eclectic box"? It is a freestyle collection, abandoning the traditional structure of "sets" and allowing one to...
Hey, Paddy, that sucks. First the bronze disease, then this. That was a cursed coin! I hope it crumbles to dust in the thief's hands. (It was...
[IMG] I like the guy's face, for some reason. Bet he's a cool dude. .
True. Silverbeard white guys of a certain age are abundant in this hobby. Mine ain't all silver yet, but I've got the middle aged white guy paunch.
Nah, looking at the slightly raised edge alongside the RTY in Liberty, I'm sticking with early state dryer coin.
Could be. Maybe somebody ground down the edge to use the coin as a spacer or something mechanical. (Like to reinforce the bottom of a chair leg?...
The old silver coins were beaten with spoons to tap them out for making silver coin rings. Why anyone would do it to a modern coin is anybody's...
That's about what I paid for one I had, more than ten years ago. So probably not too bad a deal. Mine was in an old small ANACS holder.
Ain't it weird when that happens? I have sighted my own doppleganger before. Cool looking popup book, or whaterver that is.
My friend Greg Capps is the numismatist for Brunk Auctions. He might have an idea of whether or not his firm would take such notes as...
If they're originals, they could be worth something, to the right person. Or should be, anyway. Boggs was quite the artist. I wonder how many...
Is that from the El Cazador wreck? Has that look.
Looks like an early state dryer coin that didn't progress into further damage. It is unusual looking, but yes, you're right that it is similar to...
By the way, y'all may recall that we gave away a sweet Canadian Centennial set recently, in the @Railguy giveaway. I just discovered an identical...
Just a wee bump here, to move this up with the active contests, above all the closed ones.
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