I usually go for "eye appeal" "quality of design". But there have beencases, where the awesome reverse design made me blow my budget. Here are...
I have a huge library of books dealing coinage/ banknotes. Here is a great book by Chris Rudd on Iron Age Briton Celtic Coinage...i love this...
Bought that neat coin/ post auction sale from Heritage. Got a super deal:happy:
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Tierra Del Fuego[ATTACH] MS-64
Lets go first to date/ you are absolutely right its 1697/ I must have hit wrong number. Second, his full name was Julius Wolfgang Graf Von...
Very nice Charlotte Mint coins:happy: I still need this mint. They are really $$$ in MS-63/64/65
Still we are glad to see your coin:happy:
I learned most of my geography from stamp collecting as a kid. But history/ geography were my fav. subjects in school, still are today.
Zambia 250 Kwacha Cape Hunting Dog/ or African Wild Dog/ or four legged killing machine. [ATTACH]
Nobody here failed geography class:happy:
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Probably its finest known example. I paid 3800 euros back in 2008+fees. Today it would go for 10K+.
Cyprus AV Stater ND Salamis Mint Nikokreon I 330-10BC Satrap (Governor) for Ptolemy I [ATTACH]
Papal States/ Roman Senate Issue [ATTACH]
Thanks here is another one....bad photos/ took them myself[ATTACH] [ATTACH] AV Aureus ND struck 241AD Rome Mint Emperor Gordian III 238-44AD
Back to my Country.... AV Dukat 1699 Nurnberg Mint[ATTACH] Count Wolfgang Von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein
Russia AV 1/2 Rouble 1777 St. Petersburg Mint Czarina Katharina II of Anhalt-Zerbst[ATTACH]
Second one is Jaipur, first looks like its from Bengal Presidency/ British East India Company.
The Italian States/ Genoa/ Naples etc used many different monetary units. Everyone knows about the "Merchant of Venice" Shylocks lends Bassanio...
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