So far that hasn't happened to me, I have been involved in only one coin auction and my opening bid won it. :happy:
I would really like to buy the 8th century Tang Dynasty gold coin you can see on my avatar, but I have never seen it for sale in any condition...
I almost exclusively collect gold coins (although I plan to add at least one silver coin to my collection, namely the Athenian silver tetradrachm...
The only Austro-Hungarian coin I have is the 10 crown gold coin from 1912: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
No, it is a European pine marten, which is called kuna in Croatia! The pelts of the kunas were used as currency before local coinage came along,...
While I don't own one, I have looked up which specifically Croatian coin is the oldest one in existence, and supposedly it is this Slavonian...
I also have this 5 kuna coin from 1995 commemorating the 500th anniversary of the printing of the Senj Glagolitic missal: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yes, it came out last month! I have ordered it, but the coin book I am most looking forward to reading (it came out a few months ago, I ordered it...
Japanese 2 Yen gold coin from 1870 (which is year 3 of the Meiji era): [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I don't buy ugly coins, ancient or not.
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Roman Gold Solidus of Julius II that was minted in Antioch sometime between 361 and 363: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
To be honest, even if I somehow managed to come into that kind of money, I seriously doubt that I would spend a large percentage of it on coins,...
3950 EUR (which is 4262 USD) for this 6 stuivers Dutch gold coin from 1770: [ATTACH]
Gold coins over 100 years old from countries that are of the most historical interest to me, the only planned exception to this will be if I...
Thank you:), the only way I can realistically see myself paying more for an ancient coin is if a 5th century BCE Athenian silver tetradrachm in...
While I am no fan of the person pictured on that coin, I am curious in regard to how much that coin cost you to acquire in Canada? I just looked...
I have a 25 kuna coin from 1997 commemorating Croatia joining the United Nations in 1992, I received it as a gift when I was a kid, but now as an...
The most I have ever spent on an ancient coin is 3475 EUR (which is 3756 USD), and that ancient coin is the Sassanid gold Dinar of Shapur II from...
The price increases are of course annoying, but thankfully the coins I am interested in are still in my price range (except maybe one coin, whose...
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