Hi, @LaCointessa - ‘tis great to see you back!
Well, I suppose it depends on what you mean by "cheap". That is a relative term. I think one would be lucky to find any Mint State Seated...
Yep. Nice indeed.
It's not an ancient, but @kazuma78 gave me this beauty late last year. France: bronze essai (5-centimes pattern by Barre) of Louis Phillipe I,...
Not yet. Maybe someday! @goossen - you got a nice clear batch! A lot of my elongates on the Indian cents didn't turn out so well. But I used...
At one point I had a Roman bronze of Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, who became Saint Helena, but I no longer have pictures of it. It...
What @mrweaseluv said. Those are pretty, but the premium on 'em in the eBay listing(s) seems excessive. And a gold fanam is at least a coin...
That's just the circular beaded border that surrounds the obverse design. It happens to run off the edge of the coin there, and so looks like...
Business strike coin, but a pretty nice one. Quite sharp, despite the faint obverse hairlines.
A "parking lot penny", as mentioned. Well, yes, finding a chewed-up penny is better than stepping in dog doo, I suppose. Find a fountain or...
Interesting. I did not know that.
Makes sense.
67? Purty, regardless. PS- your new avatar's a screamer, too.
Yep. That's a good example of a vise coin. Is that what they called it on error-ref.com?
Moved this thread from General Discussion (which is for general non-coin related topics), to Coin Chat (which is for general coin-related topics).
Nice circulated example. As mentioned, there is no way to see the RPM in those pictures. I consider mine also to be a nice circulated example....
It appears to be damage from having been clamped in a vise.
Aha.
The colors themselves are amazing. The toning patterns, on the other hand, I find less than ideal.
Yep. Small Letters. As mentioned, on the Large Letters variety, the bottoms of the A and M in AMERICA practically touch one another. PS- decent...
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