This might be the ugliest MS63 coin I have ever seen: [ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] guy
The reason it wasn't body-bagged? Was it because the age (> 200 years)? guy
Thanks for the input. What's the verdict on this coin (rim nick or planchet defect)? [ATTACH][ATTACH] (Not my coin.) Thank you ahead of...
This might be a question for the English / British early milled copper coinage people. I understand that early English milled copper coinage...
Of course, the labyrinth was an Ancient structure built for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its purpose was to hold the Minotaur, a mythical...
That's the ticket. :thumb: guy
A lot of people do feel mistakenly comfortable with their abilities to detect Ancient counterfeits, but the reality is different. (Read the link...
Thanks for the info. :thumb: guy
Beautiful set! Question: Do people here collect Maundy sets? In an past post, someone mentioned that earlier Maundy coinage was used as...
After her first husband, the co-Emperor Lucius Verus, died in 168/169, would coins of the Empress still be minted with her loss of status?...
Nice coin and nice piece of history. The history behind Lucilla is a tragic one. She was forced into two marriages of political convenience...
Let me weigh in on plastobolsaphobia (fear of plastic containers): Some coin collectors feel that when any ancient coin is slabbed, they lose the...
If the production of these replica coins is "perfected" one day, I wonder whether the slabbed coins from a time before this "near perfection" will...
This subject was broached before and I quickly dismissed it as too futuristic. I'm not sure anymore:...
This recent notice, I think, reflects NGC's supportive attitude to World coins (as opposed to viewing World coins as a necessary nuisance):...
Well put. Didn't PCGS originally only do US coins? I know PCGS was slow to promote world gold. I don't think PCGS does world medals, yet....
I may agree that slabbing most Ancients is an unnecessary expense. But "depressing on anything more than 200 years old"? Interesting. I...
There are some of us who can only afford the smaller denomination of the coinage we study. So, unfortunately, the only Queen Anne cooper is the...
What I great coin and what a great piece of history. :thumb: I always have trouble keeping those pesky usurpers (and usurpers of usurpers)...
I'm impressed that NGC has ventured (with some success) in certifying medals and jetons. I think a great image on a medal or jeton best...
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