Huh. This gives me a sense of déjà vu. I lean a bit more towards Spain than Hamburg (if only because of that little cross pattée at the top),...
Funny you should mention the Plague of Justinian. I was just thinking about that. Oh, imagine all the events and places our coins once were...
It's been a long time since I had any leper colony coinage. I always found them darkly fascinating, and might add one someday. In a similarly...
It's a fairly wholesome looking (well-worn, but seemingly unmolested) 1856 large cent in the G4 grade. As such, a $20 coin at retail pricing, per...
The unfortunate truth is that this coin, with obvious fingerprints and negative eye appeal, will trade at a considerable discount. Yes, it's...
It's fake, and pretty obviously fake at that, being visibly cast, with the usual mushy details that implies. It's not even a good fake. This is...
Yep. Reckon that got ground off as well. Likely a case of someone with a power tool and too much time on their hands.
With damage that heavy, it's unlikely to be worth more than a quarter, I'd imagine.
Yep. I deliberately left that open to interpretation. Your Trajan works just fine. :)
I'd have said the gold coin was a lamination error as well (at least until I saw the back of the Queen's hairdo), but given that he's got the...
Road rash. Or more likely a mechanical grinder. That's damage, not an error.
Apparently you haven't been doing your TP shopping in @Aethelred's coin shop. [ATTACH] PS- @$20, I'd have been all over that. (*The coin, not...
Great! Hoard coins are always interesting! Here's my English coin from a hoard discovered in France. It is from the Gisors (Eure) hoard [PDF]...
I agree- Republican designs are wonderful. I don't have any single favorite, but this particular Q. Thermus type is one of my favorites....
Marcus Aurelius portrait (bad old scanner image) [IMG] And an Antonius Pius portrait that I guess sort of gives a nod to the style, as you...
Neat stuff. I'm no error specialist, but here are my comments: Interesting that the piece of foreign debris from the strikethrough on the...
No, "spitzgroschen" is not an unsanitary practice that will get you quarantined. It is in fact an interesting early-dated coin. In this case,...
That's a handsome Tiberius piece in your avatar. Tribute penny?
It TOTALLY does! Those were my exact thoughts. Interesting. I hadn't seen any modern chronograms.
I doubt it, but the 50- and 100-year spans are rather moot as far as I'm concerned, since I'll have shuffled off the mortal coil by then. In...
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