PS- if you're in the mood for the very opposite of ancient, and would like a little bit of shiny modern silver dated 2023, there's always Giveaway...
Hercules. Alexander the Great in the guise of Hercules, on a posthumous tetradrachm. [IMG] Next: more Alexander the Great, be it lifetime or...
'Twas my thought, exactly. LOL
*If these giveaway announcements are annoying, lament not- this is the last one I'll post here for a little while. ~RWS/"LM" [IMG] These coins...
I assume that is in reference to the coin you won in Round 10. Thanks for the update. Glad it got there fairly quickly. You never know, during...
I'm afraid the photo quality won't be as good in this contest as it was in the last one.
It appears to have been made from (or in imitation of) a Bolivian coin. I have a 10-centavo piece with a similar design. [IMG]
Yes, very prooflike indeed.
I received the following via private message, from @john-charles, who won the Morgan dollar in Round 4.
Shipping update: The Round 12 prize is in the mailbox to ship to @Newbee03. Giveaway #80 is now open.
This contest is now open for entries. We begin with... ROUND 1. The prize is a Roman bronze antoninianus of the emperor Aurelian, struck...
So now it's time for the drawing for... Round 12 (the Phoenician coin from Arados, ca. 242-166 BC). Our lucky number was... 421. [ATTACH] And...
If there are a lot more World coins in your mother's stash, I would recommend picking up the multivolume Krause Standard Catalog of World Coins....
I hope so. Welcome to the wonderful world of World coins! Over on Collectors Universe, years ago, we took to calling ourselves "The Dark Side"....
Thanks! It's a fair amount of work, but a labor of love, so to speak. I have fun doing these.
So this particular coin should be worth a bit more than the bullion/spot price. Catalog value is $350.00 in XF, as mentioned. The same NGC page...
By all means, do, but you don't even need to do that. I access them from the Google search bar, using the method mentioned.
The Baden 10-mark here looks like it has AU details to my eyes. NGC/Krause currently says $350.00 in XF and $800.00 in UNC, so it would fall...
Sometimes you have to play with your keywords a bit to get the right search results. Oftentimes you'll end up with something close, but not quite...
Indeed! Only 98,000. That's pretty good news.
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