Nice coins, Doug:happy: i really like the Sasanian/ Kushano-Sasanian coinage. I have 5 AV coins, yet to get AR coins. John
Thanks for posting your mowers/ cats..... I will take my lawnmowers in, to have them tuned up/ so they will be ready for action in May. Still have...
That is OK, I have three dogs ((Loki)Boxer/ (Logan)Shi Tzu/ and my favorite Thor the Rottweiler:happy: As a puppy....[ATTACH]
If, I where that lucky.... I would do like Eliasburg/ have a bank vault built into mansion. Plus have a good alarm system, guns, and a bunch of...
Hoarding is when one accumlates junk/ has 200+ cats in house. On the otherhand, if someone has 10K mintstate gold coins....thats a heavenly...
Other auction houses also let you set a max. spending limit. Kunker/ CNG/ Rauch/ Baldwins to name a few. This comes in handy when you have...
Doug Smith is bang on. All of us here, if we had unlimited money would do the exact same. I know, I would. Besides, I collect not for the...
The term "ancient" usually means any coinage struck from first known coins (620BC) to the Fall of Rome 410AD. The Dark Ages began in 410AD/ ended...
Great history behind those coins:happy:!
Well/ I got a 1651 from the Ezbistum of Mainz AV Dukat 1651 Mainz Mint Johann Philipp Von Schonborn Archbishop of Mainz/ Worms/ Wurzburg 1647-73...
I have nothing from China/ ancient or recent:( But, Ifind the ancient material really neat.
We coin collectors have all these temptations coming at us, Roma just in the books, now Ars Classica/ CNG 108. man, what a ride! I can hardly wait...
You are correct my error. Its 1702-9 (Rennes Mint) the "9" is the mint mark.
Oh, I just settled for second best. Got a MS-66 Belgium AV 20 Francs Leopold II (guy who ruled over his personal slave gulag in Africa, which was...
FDC:) all coins look amazing in that grade.....
Yes, here are auction photos....[ATTACH]
I was 0-1:(! I lost the Byzantine AV Solidus FDC from Constantine V/ i was willing to go 1400 UK Pounds....but a rich dude in room won it for...
Awesome coins! Kimotej:happy:
Wish all good luck!
Nice writeup, very interesting topic. Must be nice to have that kind of capital to build a coin collection.....
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