True, some sea-salvaged gold does get encrusted as a result of the seawater interacting with the base metals the coins were alloyed with. One of...
… and back to coins: do you have any aureii from the Boscoreale treasure?
Do you have to have special humidity controls and such? Aren’t butterfly specimens very delicate?
More amazing gold for a bunch of dead bugs! Hahaha! ;) So was that it for the butterfly collection?
Group lots of old 17th-18th century coppers? Less than a buck a coin? What’s not to like there? Good cheap (and educational) fun. Can’t beat that!
This recent purchase is my first Young Head Victoria sovereign and also my first Shield type sovereign. It also fulfills another item I’ve been...
@Hiddendragon - my apologies, but I let a week slip past me without shipping your coin. It goes out today, August 14th.
Here’s the gallery with individual photos, though as of this posting I have not yet added the more recently purchased Julius Caesar and Vitellius...
Good question. Dunno. I will say that I have no intention of selling them in the short term. I might upgrade some of the coins later, in which...
Nice example from the high water mark of the Empire, @expat!
My Julius Caesar and Vitellius denarii have finally arrived from overseas. So here they all are in the box: all of the Twelve Caesars. The only...
It’s a great statue. I would worry about vandals or kids breaking off the coin or his glasses, though.
That’s the way I feel about Bust halves. But yeah, Buffaloes are cool, too. :)
When I met the man at last year’s FUN show, he had no such accessory. Unless it was in his pocket. [ATTACH]
My friend Greg (@Savoyspecial) was in Valdese, NC today. He said: I was in Valdese today and they have a section of main street with bronze...
@Lon Chaney - I looked at your gallery. It looks good. CollecOnline is a great site. I did not realize the free account was limited to 100...
That one is gone now, since @Hiddendragon chose it for his prize in Giveaway #114. I simply hadn’t removed it from the gallery yet. No worries,...
It was my step-grandfather's. He was apparently some kind of high-powered Wall Street executive back in the 1950s. Sure, it's old and stained,...
The hairline on the neck is unfortunate, and maybe it was cleaned in the past, but maybe it wasn't. I can't really tell. Anyway, that's a really...
Bullion (4) 10-oz. silver bars (10) 10-oz. silver Australian Kookaburra coins ("hockey pucks") (2) 1-oz. gold bars (3) USA gold Eagles, 2003, PCGS...
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