From my notebook: [ATTACH] Denarius of Julia Mamaea, Obverse: JULIA MAMAEA AVG “Julia Mamaea Augusta” Reverse: FECVND AVGVSTAE “Fecundity of the...
I've been totally blown out of the water in recent Heritiage auctions. It's like money is no object for these bidders. "Buyers' fees?" What are...
I have a couple of other pieces, but I could not find the pictures. This piece has gotten very pricey since I bought it years ago. There are not...
Unfortunately I don't own an sestertii. I have to get used to green copper and smoothing, as a "recovering collector of early U.S. copper." All of...
I have not handled a quarter since March. I have small tube of them that I used to fill up gradually over time as I got change. When I got to 40,...
No. According to DeWitt, J.E. Ellis made the dies and the Waterbury Button Company made them in quantity. The best current referance is Medals...
Your Grant token is a piece from the 1868 presidential campaign. It is listed in DeWitt / Sullivan as USG 1868-30. It is one of the common...
No, it isn't. You post up the PCGS coin's serial number, they ask you a couple of questions and within a business day you coin is up there. if you...
NGC puts color designations on some circulated cents. I could see doing that down to Choice AU-55, but it's silly to give color designations for...
Here is a review of the designs. Seated Liberty, No Motto, 1840 to 1866 [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Liberty Seated With Motto (In God We Trust) 1866 -...
I have been a member over there for a long time. I still post there, but I do a lot more over here. A few people really pounded me over there...
I think its face value was 3 pence.
I believe that Henry VII introduced Renaissance style coins to Great Britain. Here he is on a groat or four pence coin. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] It as...
Have you ever been to a party where the host was dividing up a cake or a pie, and you felt that you had been short changed on the size of the...
The Spanish Milled Dollar or eight reales are called “pieces of eight.” Sometimes they really were made into to pieces of eight, which was a way...
The older Proofs could have been placed in most anything. It is my understanding that the older Proofs were sold wrapped in tissue paper. In quite...
As Clark Griswall said in "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" "GONE!" when the squirel ran out the front door. If that was only picture the...
Yes, that's the way to do it, but if you don't have an old laptop with some life left it it, you are toast. I have a camera for which I paid over...
The "true color" of the coin really depends upon the light source. My favorite is 100-watt bulb although I know those are not made any more. In...
But sold out the back door to promoters who soaked collectors who wanted to buy it. Collectors who tried to reserve one for $1 from the commission...
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