Yes sir, the rim pretty much proves it's damage. When you study how a coin is made, the fact that both the field devices and the rim are damaged...
All of his items look fake to me at first glance.
It might be authentic but not of the period. Around the turn of the century I believe many places that were of historical importance started...
With the odd nail hole, and the fact I know early western items have been heavily counterfeited, I believe you would need to have such an item...
For roll searching, (when i did it a couple of decades ago), what I wanted to find was sources where people scrounged around there house and...
"how much would it cost to buy all byzantine gold coins in existence".......man, if I could only dream, that would be a good one, no?
True. Back there there was really no such thing as round holes, all nails were square. Round nails did not come into being until industrial wire...
I think a better reference would be of diocletian's price edict, since late tets of alexandrIa I believe we're equivalent to diocletian's follis....
Good work guys. When I saw the coin before the comments what I saw was a way too squarish jaw, and a ill-proportioned reverse. To borrow an idea...
Yeah, these are very susceptible to verdigris. You have to rrally be careful with them, and have badthad on speeddial. :)
I agree, either ebay or numismatic book auction. From those sources it runs $20 softcover, hardcover a little more. Also a needed book for these...
Nice one. I got this exact same coin recently. The one thing missing in pics is size, these are really large, impressive coins. I was lucky, a...
Lol, no, but I wish. There was a seller on Ebay once who happened to live in MN. He had a large group of Abassid and Ummayad coins. I just kept...
Man, I own like 20 of these things and have no idea who minted them, let alone all of that. I have the books for them, just cannot seem to give a...
You could be right we also had other purchases. I just read throughout the late 60's, the same time the US was sayin the public was dumb to hoard...
I think we agree. They are not needed, but are educational. Some of my sub collections were started because of coins I first saw in person at coin...
Chances to hear great programs, see great displays, form personal relationships, meet the greatest numismatists of the era, etc. If you think of a...
No one has really melted silver dollars, save damaged pieces, in a long time. Ever sine the early 80's they have been worth more than all other...
Of the top of my head the brass ones look like 1957 issues and the silver colored one being the 1962 CuNi issue. My wife isn't here to read the...
A lot of silver is used industrially. You need to melt down coins to use it in industry. Alternately, when the price spikes up people try to get...
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