[IMG] This one can start a new thread: Coins with blimps on them! :)
Here's my two of "Big Max": [IMG] Maximinus Thrax Denarius - Salus Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right IMP MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG Salus...
I do still have it but it is not for sale. I also restored the image in the first January 2006 post. :)
Another NCLT (Non-circulating legal tender) medal.
The medal is correct. "Like a stonewall" is just a slang term used to describe Andrew Jackson. The same term was later applied to the...
FDR's $20 coin sounds like a 1907 high relief coin so it was probably a presentation piece.
Looks like 4th century Roman to me. Without the obverse emperor portrait it would be hard to pin down. The reverse looks like one that I have...
I recently saw the 1947 film "The Foxes of Harrow" on TV. Rex Harrison played an illegitimate son of a wealthy European family who arrives in...
Uncleaned Roman coins. Gold found!
I guess fingerprints don't bother circulated coins. :)
I have occasionally received "naughty boy" notices from Ebay forums but have never been expelled. :)
Like this? [IMG] :)
[IMG] I sold one of these on Ebay for $5 in April 2005 to a Toronto (Canada) customer. I am pretty sure that I acquired it in the mid 1960's...
Toilet Toned Coins! [IMG]
I may be dumb but I'm not stupid! :)
Almost all physical labor in ancient Rome was done by slaves. Also in the old south. :)
Did the US mints in the pre-Civil War south use slaves? (Dahlongela, Charlotte, New Orleans)
The lovely Miss Portugal appears on several of their coins: [IMG] :)
[IMG] This coin is not a commemorative but it is one of my favorites. I picked up around 10 of them in Cairo in 1987. I like the simplicity...
Maybe King George should eat spinach like Popeye? :)
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