It's not, necessarily. The seller is asking $2380 for it. There's frequently a big difference between what a seller wants and the market price....
You could probably make something like this yourself with a drill press if you wanted, or get someone else to do it. It's not like they're...
Can't say from those pictures. This one sold for $3348.75 in November 2013 (granted the one I linked was a PCGS coin). If it could cross at 67,...
Pretty cool. You might be interested to know that virtually everyone with any European ancestry is descended from Charlemagne in some way.
A fancy and hard to spell word for tracing family histories.
Lol @dougsmit. :) Maybe the celator was looking in a mirror while cutting the die for the VRBS ROMA. :) Also, I really like the Commodus.
@kaparthy, you posted this a few days too early. Today is Monday. April Fools' is Friday.
Like others have said, they are mostly educated guesses unless we're talking about real rarities. This article from Numismatic News claims that...
Nice coins everybody. @Bing, I'll trade you some dirt for yours! :P
That's a nope from me as well.
No, I don't. :P But here are some reasons to get a coin certified that don't involve resale value: As a learning experience. Maybe a new...
I showed my ex a picture of a rather worn 1793 cent and it actually scared her. She called it the "nightmare penny," lol.
There are plenty of reasons other than purely financial to get a coin certified.
I have a nickel tree in my back yard. Doesn't everybody? Been trying to get it to grow shield nickels, but no luck. :P
Your pictures are too small, and, by the filenames appear to be scans. A scan will not show whether the coin is MS or not due to the strange...
I don't know anything about this specific one, but electrotypes were frequently made for museum display or for collectors in the 19th century. I...
Somebody put it on a lathe.
The gold is the best of the bunch. If I were going to get any of the three, it would be the gold UNC. It's a little over a quarter ounce, and...
They show up, just not as well as some other things.
@SuperDave literally said every single thing I was going to say. Just read his posts in this thread and pretend I said the same thing.
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