Also had made by a jewler & gave this to my niece for her 1st Holy Confirmation. Coin is enclosed in 2 curved plastic pieces so it can't be...
Actually I made another coin display for our wedding which may be much more amenable to showing off a collection of Philippine coins. I used 2...
Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd US President (1801 - 1809). He collected some Roman coins. Would a cheap & relatively common Roman bronze of say...
My guess is a pocket piece as I can't imagine this thing circulating for the 50 years or so without somebody picking it out. Also it has no major...
Yes lots of times [IMG] [IMG] The coin is held by an interior plastic coin sleeve, thus it doesn't touch the plexiglass. Later versions use a...
Although as a newbie Aes Grave buyer I was looking for an As, your Semis is now extremly nice & interesting. The "wheel" coins are practically...
Hi Dr. Saha, I have very little knowledge of Indian coins however I've purchased all grades of "struck for circulation" British. I found the...
Actually I know Ed but haven't talked with him in years (like 20). There were 2 of us friends who used to hang out together and go to all the...
That's me! I buy ancients and while experienced, have avoided becoming an expert. Also ever since Dennis Kroh retired I could never find anyone...
Are you the Medievalcoinage.com website owner? I just browsed thru the site and really liked it and sent an email to the contact. Quite...
Is that 1421?
Well I don't know definitively if it's clipped or not. This is why it's best to stay in one area and specialize. I did buy the coin from a...
A slight correction to the above article. In addition to the 1K face value bags of Morgan/Peace silver dollars sold by the US mint in 1964, it...
Hi Dave M., Thanks for the suggestion. I like your format. I think perhaps I'll try it on a few pages and maybe try the tables for some other...
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Wow, I thought these were worth in the $4 - 5K range. Shortly before I got married in 1998 I was very interested in early Thalers. I found one...
I'm updating my coins and history website from hand coded html to WordPress. The home and map pages I've redone. However all of the detailed...
I may have posted this one here before but here's my earliest AD dated piece. I had a very brief affair with old world thalers before settling...
These 2 I bought a long time ago from a coin dealer: Karl Stephens. This was well before the days of slabbing of foreign coins of any type. The...
Here's one of mine. I used to collect French but gave it up some years ago. I brought photos of this + some of my others pieces to coin shop...
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