Wolfhounds, first battlion 27th infantry regiment (25th inf. Div.) Cu Chi base camp Vietnam. VN1160a, plated brass, 21mm, 4.3 grams. Long...
Looks like exonumia to me. :)
Are there many Condors like that? I bet an Industrial Age topical would be a lot of fun to put together.
It's Feriam Sidera....
I was buying Liberty Stamps when I was 8 or 9 years old. They had 10 and 25cent stamps that you put on a sheet. I think I had almost $11 when I...
There is no currency more valuable than time. It's also the one asset that you have more of than most people on CT. But you keep wasting it on...
Phoenix Bux, $1, M/A, cast pewter, 8.8 grms, 25mm. Edge lettered: IN ART// WE TRUST// PHX BUX. These were cast in a tree mould ten at a time by...
So we could be talking to one of Peter's make believe friends who no longer exists on CT? :)
I'm pretty sure I collect Lincoln BIEs because of the irony. They are die breaks between the letters in LIBERTY usually between the B & E. When...
It may be damage. The right side of the T appears to have been sheared.
It's an "associated die break" by the BIE Handbook definition. Although some collectors just called them "connectors." The use of "connectors"...
I like Northwest Territory. At least I did when I was buying.
Yes it may have been bad film but it's not my photo. INS was a old TPG like ANACS.
It's a spiked head. Yes it does add some value. But the W is a fairly common spot for spikes to hit.
The weird part is, the coin is grey and the photo was was grey too in 1987. :)
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Notice how it's slightly short of reaching the top of the adjacent letters but extends slightly past them at the bottom? That's a common...
As already mentioned, plating bubbles can be a problem on zincs but it does appear to be a BIE and a nice one too.
Yes it is. They are also called chips or a piece out of the die. Whatever you see on a coin is opposite on the die. The B as well all letters...
I think the rout in gold has to be affecting the psyches of silver investors-Little Mommy following Big Daddy. And if the Sachigoths are right...
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