I am a big fan of both Lyn Knight and Stack's-Bowers, you can find plenty of truly rare coins and the reserves are low enough that you will be...
Same coin as before with better white balance, also puts this thread ahead of that "pretender" thread that includes the word "ancients" in...
Looks like a genuine nickel example to me, but I agree that the rim nicks make it such that I'm not sure I would want the coin in any case.
All goes back to changes eBay made in their fee structure over the past decade. At one time, it was very inexpensive to list a coin at 99 cents...
The hat-thingy is called a fez.
There is the faint trace of a fingerprint in the field around 4:00 obverse, but that might have belonged to Farouk for all I know. Agree, very...
I don't deny that some of them are rare, the proof Australia penny coins from the late 1950s for instance. And in all fairness there are a few I...
Hey Hey!! Would you look at that! 1937, what a great year out of the history books. Between the Nazis and Stalin's purge, yikes, what a year....
Sunk? Dead? Not if you and I keep this discussion going. Would you care to lie down on the sofa and talk about your coins for a little while?...
I'm not so sure about that, might be exactly the opposite since anything with silver in it would have been hoarded. Search on "Italy 1919" on...
Not sure if that would work. The post would get buried by even a few additional new posts and never be seen again. Would be like asking an old...
Of course if everyone posted their newest addition, it would certainly release me of the tremendous burden and sacrifice of doing it all by...
Which ever thread appears at the top of the thread list most often will eventually win-out sort of Darwin-style. I guess that means I need to add...
None of them look very flashy, certainly not even remotely as lustrous as a typical Morgan or Peace dollar. Mine is an MS62, which as might be...
All semantics I suppose, several of the auction houses likes to use the term "finest seen" instead of "finest known" by the grading services, etc....
How about we start a new thread for newest acquisition that is dedicated to WORLD coins only, and which leaves out all the ancients? We would use...
Looks like coin alignment to me based on the location of the staples in the photographs.
58 looks right to me. Couple little scratches, no big deal really. Nice rims.
Thanks to all who replied, very helpful.
I'm in Breen's "Encyclopedia of US & Colonial Coins" looking at the 1864 "small motto" 2-Cent piece, Breen lists it as a prototype. How is that...
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