You're still missing the main point, which is that the "validity" of the certificate in 1975 is completely irrelevant to its current significance...
I hope you realize that in posting the document I was sent I wasn't suggesting that the "Certificat de Garantie" for my coin has any independent...
My apologies. I misread what you said as being your editorial comment as well as a summary, but I was obviously incorrect. I will change my...
Thank you. I strongly suspect that the Dr. Cahn in Basel who certified my coin in 1975 was neither of these gentlemen, given that one of them was...
Thank you for the personal recollection! I wonder what the man's name was (possibly neither Davis nor Clark)? It was an interesting marketing idea...
Thanks for the link. The causia, I believe, is what definitively clinches Crawford's identification of the obverse figure as the personification...
The problem with this excerpt's assertion regarding the mediocrity of Davis & Clark's coins is that it may be true as a generalization, but is...
Thanks! @Alegandron's is also wonderful.
I know almost nothing about U.S. coins, but none of the Morgan silver dollars I used to get from the local bank when I was a little kid -- my...
I think all the examples posted in this thread are lovely. It's truly a wonderful type.
I was recently contacted by Bradley J. Bowlin of Eukratides Ancient Numismatics, the dealer from whom I bought my Cn. Plancius Republican denarius...
It looks like she's wearing an ice-skating costume for the Olympics.
Yes, accidents can happen, but I've been collecting coins of various kinds since about 1965 (and a little bit even earlier), and I've never yet...
It doesn't appear to be fragile. It feels reasonably solid and I don't think it's any thinner than the average Republican coin. However, I'm not...
I suspect that you're probably right! But I like the coin anyway, even if it's not graffiti, or the face of Jupiter!
I bought this coin (which arrived today), even though its surfaces, especially in the fields, are quite rough and have many small scratches. I...
If you have an interest in ancient coins, you should make sure that you do become familiar with Wildwinds!
The only left-facing portrait I have of one of those three emperors is this provincial: a Hadrian Year 19 tetradrachm from Alexandria with a bust...
Since people have posted about coins of theirs on Wildwinds, I guess I could mention the Antoninus Pius/Zeus Ammon Year 12 Alexandrian tetradrachm...
I believe that Dane is a she. One of the more prominent "Women in Numismatics," to use the title of a thread from a while ago.
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