Wonderful as usual, @galba68! Now that I'm soon to be (temporarily) unemployed, I'll have to try to get out detecting or fossil hunting soon.
It's not a totally unlovable coin. It just wouldn't be most people's cuppa tea, is all. Some folks maybe wouldn't object to the toning so much....
Both had to do with WW2, obviously. I guess they did that so that the bills could be more easily demonetized if they fell into enemy hands? I...
Is that iron, or zinc? Nicely preserved, either way. I guess these were "emegency" coins of a sort... Ireland: brass "gunmoney" halfcrown,...
Then it's white and flashy, maybe... but cleaned. Not much point in cracking it out of the slab to dip it. Best to just accept it as-is, and...
I'm working until our last guest at the hotel checks out (likely Thursday) then laid off for 60 days. My wife, who works for the same resort...
It's a common coin, and not remotely close to being Extremely Fine. That being said, it isn't bad, either. By way of comparison, here is a...
Nice to see one of those in MS.
Dat's what I'm talkin' about! ☆☆☆☆☆
I don't know if the stories of those "box dollar" Trade dollars having been used to smuggle opium have any basis in truth. I suppose it's...
Charles II (r. 1661-1700) certainly fits the "strong 1600s-1700s vibe" I mentioned earlier. I had a hunch this coin was a couple of centuries...
Well, only five of those are in my current collection. The rest are "bygone beauties". *sigh* I keenly miss that 1847 proof Liberian cent. It...
Aha!!!
I hope somebody can nail it down! (*The attribution, I mean. Not literally.) ;)
One difference between this halfpenny and a classic box thaler is of course the fact that it was a purposely made fantasy item rather than a real...
I think you're barking up the right tree in terms of design and the likeliness it's Spanish, but I can't shake the feeling that it's a tad later...
I very nearly bought one of those last year. Lovely.
Call me clueless, there. But intrigued.
The 1870s satirical pieces (both counterstamped and engraved) that were made after the French loss to the Prussians in the Battle of Sedan have...
This one's really too modern to be considered Art Deco, I suppose, yet it still kind of has that vibe, to me. [IMG]
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