Phoenix, that is a well modelled, expressive portrait of Nerva. Nice coin.
This is a coin i posted before, BUT these new pictures are far better i think. I find copper in general very difficult to photograph, specially...
Thank you VERY much BQcoins and Jlloring for your comments, specially for that link and comparative pictures you guys posted. I have already...
Thank you 900fine! those are very interest comments on silver coinage during the years of the civil war. Here are some more pics of the...
Incredible! what an exciting find. Thank you for pointing this out. Seems to happen often in Britain. Or maybe, it just gets reported more in...
By the way, i mentioned that i was keen to collect civil-war era coins due to the historic association. However, i remember reading later that...
You guys are right: salt water will not corrode a noble metal like gold. I have a Santiago mint 1750 'Pelucona' (8 escudos coin) salvaged from...
Well, from what one can read the coin appers to bear the NR mintmark, with assayer JJ. So it appears to be a doubloon from Nuevo Reino (NR),...
Well, at least nobody can say you don't speak your mind. Counterfeit? please explain to me why you think so.
I think my wife would rather have me be obsessed about coins, than about some of my other hobbies...... as it is, she has only banned talk about...
Once again, thank you Treashunt! I don't have access to Wayte Raymond albums, so i will try the brown envelope approach. I was thinking maybe i...
Thank Treashunt, i have never tried that. Will give it a try. Eduard
About 20 years ago i was really interested (enthralled is probably the right word) by the US civil war period and history, and i just "had" to get...
Tater, i would also agree that the color is natural. It is slightly light in tone as you say, but overall quite pleasing. It does not have to...
Thank you all very much for your comments. This one came from Stacks. It was brighter when i got it (possibly dipped), but it has toned down...
The silver trimes are a little outside my main collecting interest. But i was always attracted by their design and unusual denomination. Here is...
Once again, thank you for your comments. The C8 is actually better in-hand than the picture shows. The lighting just wasn't right, and I just...
Well Ruben, not to be pedantic, but ostentatious means something like snobbish, somebody who holds himself in too high esteem, etc. (if i knew...
Sorry Andrew! i didn't mean to be pedantic by using the word "pedantic" (it probably has something to with learning english as a foreign language...
You know HT, nothing happened (what is NARU'd by the way?). PayPal was not able to refund me because the guy's account was frozen and empty,...
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