How about this one? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] No, it's not my coin ... It's in the British Museum.
Maybe there was a reason why these guys let the lettering mush out on these coins. If you could not read the source or the moneyer, you would have...
MS-63. I see some hairlining on the reverse.
If you exclude the Proof coins that I have, which have business strike counterparts, it might be this Pan-Pac $50 round with a net mintage of 483....
The argenteus coins with the four leaders around the altar provides interesting symbolism, but getting all four of them in that format gets...
The cataloger thought that it might be Chester. Dealer Andy Singer looked at it and was not sure. The North number is 853. I have barely gotten...
Most of my reference books come from the Friends of the Liberty bookstore that my wife works with in her volunteer work. As such they are mostly...
Neither, according the cataloger. The claim, without any equivocations, is that it’s Bristol with Ricard as the moneyer. Since that is a...
One of the frustrating aspects of these coins is that even when the piece is well made for the type, the lettering is still mushy and hard to...
Let’s face it. When I was strictly a U.S. coin collector a decade ago, I would have looked at that Henry I penny and dismissed it out of hand as...
[ATTACH] William the Conqueor penny, Spink 1257 William the Conqueror issued nice coins for the medieval period after he seized England in 1066....
Real estate can make a lot of money for you. I know because I have made a a lot of money from it. I'm not so sure about about owning rental...
When copper-nickel coins corrode, they turn black or brown. That is true for nickels and clad dimes, quarters, half dollars and dollars.
When I was a coin dealer, collectors often asked me, “Are there any anti-slavery Civil War tokens?” The answer is yes, but the number of varieties...
It was the blot on the American Revolution. It was the contradiction that undermined Thomas Jefferson’s soaring human rights rhetoric in the...
I have always been under the impression that all of the Morgan silver dollars (excpet the garbage from China) were worth more than melt. Has that...
There is actually some logic to that. I have been able to buy an envelope full of nice ancient coins for the price I was paying for one so-so U.S....
It does not show in the photo, but with this piece, they could have gotten 9 or 10 bits out of that dollar.
And to top it off, I don't care for these coins in slabs ...
I have been shopping for a denarius of Aquilia Severa, who was the Vestel Virgin wife of Elagabalus and perhaps his only "true love." The only...
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