Whoa! Nice catch!
When I made my reply above, I had not scrolled down far enough to yet be bedazzled by the arrays posted by @Curtisimo and @zumbly. Wow. @Ryro...
@Amarques - welcome to CoinTalk! Did you wish to enter? Just make one post with the words "entry post" in it. There are some Spanish coins in...
Well, the original hand hellers came out during that era of medieval history, yes. But I doubt the Plague had any influence on their design....
Not a terribly expensive piece. $80-ish, as I recall. Already slabbed. It is softly struck in places but that is compensated for by the luster....
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BTW, the resemblance to stick people is in this case merely coincidental. That's a cross, with pellets at the end of the arms (not sure of the...
Appears to be a modern Sterling silver imitation of a medieval German hand heller. Check this out. (PDF file) Ah, I see @willieboyd2 beat me to...
Cabinet toning? Mmm... yes, please! :) An-tone-ninus Pius, you say? Been there, done that. ;) [ATTACH]
Wow. Both posted here so far are beautiful.
Unfortunately, if that were so easily done, it would have been done long, long ago. But yes, a crackdown on coin criminals is a good thing, in...
I love Fil-American coinage. I like the earlier "eagle on shield" design more than the later one from the Commonwealth era. At the moment, I own...
Australia, 1927. [IMG] [IMG]
This. It is not even remotely genuine, but rather a crudely-made counterfeit. But that’s not necessarily bad news. If it is a contemporary...
Ye Olde Random Number Generator hath spoken again. And the lucky number it chose was... Forty-eight. [ATTACH] And Post #48 was by... @DEA !...
That's a lovely purplemonster, even if it is technically a slider.
We are indeed there! Welcome to Fall, everyone! (Or Spring, for those of y'all Down Under or in the Southern hemisphere.) Since I am an...
Excluding Egypt, here is the only other African coin in my collection besides the two posted above. I was delighted to find it in a bulk lot....
I remember jambo (hello), twiga (giraffe), tembo (elephant), samaki (fish), and ... um... Yeah. Not much else. I was only six when we moved to...
A most excellent array!
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