Okay Ian here are the bigger and more improved pictures. Just to note the date is at about LVD on the obverse and about 4 o'clock right when...
Well I like your explanation a ton better than the other one I tell you what! Why would people make fakes with better quality metal than the...
Those 2 counter stamps match up like a song in my book. The coin pictured in the book looks to be a bit different with the writing but with the...
Yay! That is the new good news I had been hoping for. GDJMSP was basically driving a steak knife through my heart and then twisting it upward as I...
See that is the encouragement there I need to hear. If each privy mark is different than maybe the dies made vary in some respects. I see the "Z"...
I'm afraid I don't have a scale small enough for coins. Just to clarify where exactly would this "Z" be? I have looked at it at 6 o'clock and all...
When you first said my coin may be a counterfeit it was as if you drove a steak knife through my heart. Then you said contemporary and that...
...I see an "A" at 6 o' clock...it is made from high quality silver and clearly circulated...what is a privy mark?? 2 sols was just written on the...
I bought this coin at a coin show a year and a half ago and it is a 2 sols coin of Louis XIV minted in 1704. I was wondering if you guys know what...
I checked my book again and it seems to be a almost perfect match for the Egyptian 5 para coins as you said and it is made from copper. The only...
I'm trying to find out where and when these coins were made. The first one in the pic has some kind of writing that I completely do not...
Hmmm lemme get this straight. You were at the place you spoke of in 1924?? If so you must be pretty darn old.
That all makes perfect sense. Thank you so much for taking the time to tell me of it all!
I checked my book with all of that and what you say makes perfect sense. This dating system is quite interesting.
That is quite interesting. Does that mean the coin could have been minted in 1881 or 2??
Omgosh I had never even heard of that country until now and I found it right away in my very large book!! My book actually has 1300 as 1882 but I...
I recently found out that the top coin is from Yemen, the middle from Tunisia, and I think the third coin is from Saudi Arabia but I am not sure...
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