That is a great coin which is filled with so much history. :thumb: That said, we should remember that the milled coinage of Elizabeth I was just a...
Coming out of the closet…. Well, let me say that I don’t collect coins. I do enjoy Ancient Roman history, however. And I do "accumulate"...
That’s funny and and just plain silly. :too-funny: Thank you, nevertheless, for your thoughtful assessment of my post. I have never claimed to...
This might be the ugliest MS63 coin I have ever seen: [ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] guy
The reason it wasn't body-bagged? Was it because the age (> 200 years)? guy
Thanks for the input. What's the verdict on this coin (rim nick or planchet defect)? [ATTACH][ATTACH] (Not my coin.) Thank you ahead of...
This might be a question for the English / British early milled copper coinage people. I understand that early English milled copper coinage...
Of course, the labyrinth was an Ancient structure built for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its purpose was to hold the Minotaur, a mythical...
That's the ticket. :thumb: guy
A lot of people do feel mistakenly comfortable with their abilities to detect Ancient counterfeits, but the reality is different. (Read the link...
Thanks for the info. :thumb: guy
Beautiful set! Question: Do people here collect Maundy sets? In an past post, someone mentioned that earlier Maundy coinage was used as...
After her first husband, the co-Emperor Lucius Verus, died in 168/169, would coins of the Empress still be minted with her loss of status?...
Nice coin and nice piece of history. The history behind Lucilla is a tragic one. She was forced into two marriages of political convenience...
Let me weigh in on plastobolsaphobia (fear of plastic containers): Some coin collectors feel that when any ancient coin is slabbed, they lose the...
If the production of these replica coins is "perfected" one day, I wonder whether the slabbed coins from a time before this "near perfection" will...
This subject was broached before and I quickly dismissed it as too futuristic. I'm not sure anymore:...
This recent notice, I think, reflects NGC's supportive attitude to World coins (as opposed to viewing World coins as a necessary nuisance):...
Well put. Didn't PCGS originally only do US coins? I know PCGS was slow to promote world gold. I don't think PCGS does world medals, yet....
I may agree that slabbing most Ancients is an unnecessary expense. But "depressing on anything more than 200 years old"? Interesting. I...
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