Great coin, congratulations. I seldom see such nice silvering extant.
I read an article once by a metallurgist who estimated the Lone Ranger would have needed dozens of Colt Peacemakers to make the series as the...
SS New York. I was really pleased to be successful with my bid on this coin. I’ve long wanted a piece from the SS New York, and to bag a British...
With so much detail extant I would grade at Fine. You might be pleasantly surprised at what a TPG rates it but be warned that there is a high...
Great coin and sadly the Pobjoy mint is no more. Your coin was Pobjoy Mint's equivalent of the Britannia. They were a hugely innovative company...
This one of 1.3 million silver coins minted in WW2 as the Allies wanted middle eastern support with oil but the owners of the oil fields didn't...
Between 1641 and 1643.
This coin turned up today and I am very pleased with it as I took a chance. I based my decision to bid on it at a provincial auction house because...
I ran the odds on this once as I was considering doing it but once you look at the odds of the high value wins compared to the low values its not...
Will do. I will do this after I take it back to the museum for a second opinion. As their numismatic curator was the person who wrote the standard...
That impresses me as I know nothing about them and told my friend it was a $5000 coin if real.
I met a friend yesterday who I advised some time ago to buy "silver". He is not a coin collector and I meant bullion because silver has been...
Here is one of those "why the heck did I buy this" coins. It is a 2013 Cook Islands $5 SS Republic silver Coin with authentic ship’s coal fragment...
This is one of the best Douro coins I have seen to date. What a great coin!
I actually go out of my way to bid on details coins at auction because so many people are more obsessed with possessing a grade and lump of...
Thank you @Jersey magic man , I had absolutely no idea. This appears to be a complex subject and beyond what I ever will encounter ( apart from US...
Can someone explain this to me please? No rush just idle curiosity.
That's a great looking coin @calcol and the nine pence is the rarest Newark siege coin compared to the Shilling and Halfcrown. A siege coin is on...
Thank you @The Eidolon , that is an interesting coin. The French infantry outgunned the Germans with their Chassepot rifles good to 1200 metres...
That is true but the good stuff normally has special packaging and COA's like this one of mine which has a serial number.[ATTACH] You would have...
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