I do not believe the OP is really serious. He alludes to the poor quality of the pictures of the edge, but other than some intentional fun-house...
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Here are two of them. One of them I must have placed in a safe place here at the house, and eventually I will run across it. The others I have...
They are with some other coins in my bank vault. I'll see if I can get down there over the next few days and retrieve them to take some pictures.
Nice quarter! The year 1983 must have been big for off-center quarters. I seem to remember a similar post a few months ago with a 1983 quarter....
Thanks! I'll give it a try.
I bought this out of a batch of loose ancients at a local coin show several years ago. I think it is Ptolemy II or III, but I cannot tell for...
I looked at the listing on eBay, then looked at his feedback, as far as the first negative. Most of his sales were books rather than coins, and...
In my amateur opinion, both ideas are correct. There definitely is a column. Consider both the base and top of the column. But there is also...
I am no expert, closer to a novice in this area. But it appears the obverse is clearly a "poor man's doubled die," and not a very strong one, and...
Thanks! I enjoyed reading that!
Just think, if the mint had gone with this design, there never would have been any FS designation or arguments over whether it was or wasn't FS.
Entry post. 1 2 4 5 7 4 3. Thanks for the giveaway! This is not a great treasure, but it is my most recent purchase. Got it for 20 cents in a...
Thanks for the information! Very interesting, especially the reaction of the Italian mint officials.
Considering how often claimants to the throne met untimely deaths, all them were "sticking their necks out" to declare themselves emperors. Maybe...
What is this? I haven't been to Europe since 2002, and we find very few Euro coins here in the Deep South. (Once while bicycling I found a few...
I collect because I love history, and there is a lot of it in US Fractional Currency. Plus, it is affordable. Unless you are into specimen...
Entry Post. Super prizes! Thanks. My order: 3 4 6 1 2 5 I find this note interesting. The portrait is of Spencer M. Clark, Superintendent of...
The Declaration of Independence is in terribly shape. I have 18th Century parchments and Continental Currency (paper, of course) made or signed...
I've had plenty like this. I find them along the road when I ride my bicycle. When they are too deformed to use as money, sometimes I will...
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