Yeah, they're a mess. Zinc, while it has its industrial uses, is a trashy metal for coinage (hence my prior jab at the Nazis for using it...
Zinc coinage was another WW2 German atrocity in the occupied countries. I don't think you can do much with them. Perhaps a soak in mineral oil...
Awesome. I love the light CircCam contrast. Usually I'd have gone for yours first because of the toning, but I liked the strike on my example...
Excellent point. Might as well do all of the above, while we're daydreaming. Medals. Old Master paintings. Sestertii and aureii. All kept...
If reposts were a crime, I'd have been banished and chained to a galley oar long ago! Ay, Chihuahua. Be still my beating heart.
USA or 1947. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Nice- which one did you get?
That painting absolutely hypnotizes me. If I were a kazillionaire, I would collect Old Master paintings as well as gold aureii. [IMG]
Sounds like fun.
That's some impressive work. Do you sell them at Renaissance fairs and such? You probably could.
Same seller I bought mine from has a nearly identical example for the same price, as of this post. Which worked out to just a smidgen below a...
I did my first detecting in Old Town Fernandina!
Welcome out of lurker life and into the sunshine. Are the coins in your avatar your own handiwork?
Yes, a 9 for me as well. The inscription is CIVITAS MAGNOP[OL], I believe.
German States (Mecklenburg-Wismar): silver witten, struck after the Wendish Coinage Union of 1379 [ATTACH] Obverse: Crowned bull's head facing,...
Oh, and those little vignette portraits! Wonderful.
Now that's interesting. I knew the dies on the 1968 cents were old, but did not know they were that old! And the contrast between the portrait...
I voted 8 myself.
I agree, and went 10 as well this time. Not just because of ownership bias, but because I think coins with known provenance, especially pieces...
England: silver groat of Henry VI, ca. 1422-1461, from the Reigate Hoard found in Surrey [ATTACH] Obverse: Crowned facing bust within polylobate...
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