I thought I might have achieved this with the exception of one. @Bing was my inspiration to collect these. I missed out on a XVIIII a couple of...
The Shipwreck Corner was originally conceived to show and discuss shipwreck coins such as Cobs but then drifted into any numismatic item, Exonumia...
This is a great coin @lordmarcovan but you should have posted it in Shipwreck Corner! ;) I'm hoping you bought it as a commemorative years ago...
Merry Christmas @dwhiz I’m glad they turned up in time . I’m no railroad nut but enjoy your steam posts as I have a connection to Brunel. Merry...
That's a great coin, great story and fantastic provenance. We really need to be thankful to previous collectors for hanging on to old labels and...
This is a commonly encountered coin and can be easily found "raw" or slabbed and often in presentation cases. The price often depends how many are...
He looks like the famous only surviving photograph of Sparticus.
I would agree with @-monolith- @Bing It looks tooled to me too. I guess the starting price is aimed at "investors" and not "collectors". Yours is...
Attitude, nuff said. Already blocked this toxic post. Life is short, enjoy it.
How sad. I hope the latter is true @Blake Davis and one day they will resurface, the perpetrators are a stain in the Gene pool. They need therapy...
Many years ago at a Tulsa Gun Show an Octogenarian dealer told me that part of the fun was buying a mongrel runt of the litter dog and trading it...
Great article and what interesting coins. Here is one of my James 1 coins. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] SHILLING 1605-16. S.2656 SINGLE ARCHED CROWN
[ATTACH] SS Erinpura. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 32 mm Bronze Medal also minted in Silver for Officers. This interesting eBay find turned up today. You...
This is a coin from a seldom-encountered shipwreck. We never find its coins in the fantastic condition of those recovered from well-known wrecks...
If you just want a countermark though,about 30 tons will make a crisp impression @Burton Strauss III
I'm a mechanical electrical engineer and by coincidence working on shear pressure to sever solid logs of plastic. I did a quick calculation and on...
All great coins @Collecting Nut . Thank you for sharing. I particularly like the Lion fish although I must confess to being involved in Lion fish...
I haven't posted any shipwreck items lately and this turned up about a week ago. It commemorates the loss of the SS Gairsoppa in WW2 and the...
It often amazes me that at the Las Vegas Antiques Arms Fair and Tulsa April and November shows, guns worth tens of thousands of dollars are left...
I'd nominate @robinjojo for the support he has given those of us who are collecting rough lumps of Spanish Silver. It's a specialist area that he...
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