I agree with JWT, sounds reasonable to me. Then you will find a specialty, and 350 coins later wonder what happened. THEN, 3500 coins later you...
I have a ton of them, but to be honest not by date. Are there any scarce dates?
I look at it more in 4-5 dollar chunks. Moving from high 18's to 15 was a stage IMHO. Before that is was around 22-23. Humans with numbers are...
But it hasn't. The current drop is from the 18ish level down to around 15. You have to measure drops in stages. Each stage has additional buying...
My first concern would be overlapping dates. Most series had different start/stop dates, so decisions would need to be made about which coins were...
I guess I just don't know. Without strength in Asia buying I cannot see it moving strongly up. We might be near a bottom but I simply see sideways...
Well we know both methods were used. The "snow leopard" type was actually made both ways, some cast and others struck on cast flans. I can't tell...
I agree. Heck, I bought a few London mint examples a few months ago looking just like your coin OP. BTW, the reverse is upside down. ;)
I don't see any mintmarks on any of your coins. Are you checking for mintmarks on the reverse? The earlier pieces with a mintmark are most likely...
Wonderful to hear. Could you please post whenever its done? I would hate to miss it. I liked his first book so much I actually bought two copies. :)
Sweet coin, to say the least. If I were going to own a Greek gold, that would be it. I love Babylon mint Alexander's. THere just seems to be extra...
Good job identifying them Mat. I don't have that patience. Any I go into the "maybe in retirement I will have time" pile.
Search through CoinTalk and you will find posts on it. As a beginning, you can always use acetone and distilled water. Let the coin dry naturally...
It was an interesting piece, but I bet you most of us would have very different uses for that kind of coin money. I could buy 20 of the most...
This is true of new collectors. Old farts like us who have been around coins for 40 years clean them all of the time, but we KNOW WHAT WE ARE...
No, many other people will read this. I admit I have cleaned junk silver, things like cruddy 1962 quarters. I did it to learn how to correctly...
It won't OP, but why are you wanting to? Are you wanting to learn how to clean? That would be the only reason I would think it might make sense.
Mint was in a tough place. Limit the mintage to 17,000 like the other ones and hear howls from the collecting community, or increase mintages and...
Yes, on some of these coins the cross is more flowery like the one on that link. I actually have a cross amulet found beneath a famous monastery...
I like the coin man. The reverse reminds me of the gold coins of a little later era, like Constans.
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