I got a professional quality coin photography setup a little over a year ago, and for reasons that have more to do with me and my cramped commuter...
Whoops! My first newp of 2018! ("Newp"= new purchase, if you were wondering.) I say "whoops" because this was an impulse buy. Not competely- I...
As of this posting, I have temporarily listed these on eBay as fixed-price Buy-It-Now items, with a Make Offer feature. However, maybe on Sunday...
Felt like I wanted to give away a 2018-dated coin to celebrate the new year, so here's the prize: Armenia: 500-dram, "Noah's Ark", 1 oz. .999...
Pretty neat, huh? [IMG] [IMG]
Italy (Venice): billon Soldino of Alvise Contarini, ca. 1676-1684 Diameter: 21-22mm approx. Obverse: “S.M.V.ALOYS.CON”, Doge kneeling left,...
Check it out. The groovy CircCam 1900-O Morgan you sent me just officially launched my Dansco #7172 album. :) I put the Ikes I got from...
I've been fascinated by carved Roman gemstones for a while, but had never owned one, and never really expected to. In late 2012 or early 2013, I...
It is a United States dime. [IMG] Do you like it and find such engraved pieces interesting or appealing? If so, why? Would you add a coin...
This morning I was plucking quarters from the change in my flower vase "piggy bank". (Yep, it's down to that again.) Then the quarters ran out...
[IMG] Lord Marcovan's "Eclectic Box" collection
Please see my CollectiveCoin gallery. You may have seen some of the love tokens already, but all the prices have been reduced slightly. Don't be...
This 1972 F.A.O. issue Tanzanian 5-shilingi piece recently cost me around 5-10 cents, since it was in a bulk lot I bought. Though it catalogs for...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] There. Adolf and Uncle Joe learn synchronized swimming, and...
What should the next newp be? My current cash status is pinched, to say the least, so there will not be any bigger purchases for the rest of the...
This album is a casual sideline project I recently started. I figure I'll play with it a little while and then pass it on down the line to...
These things, modest though they may be, need new homes. Prize #1: a pair of BU coins from Timor (1970 bronze 20-centavo & 50-centavo pieces)....
I put it in the "Coin Chat" forum, since my purchases weren't exclusively ancients, though ancients were an important part of my year. I explored...
Here are my top acquisitions from 2017. There were others, of course, including primarily love tokens, but this is just what what came into (and...
I had a leftover Amazon gift card balance to burn, and the coins I saw for sale on there are for the most part rubbish or heinously overpriced -...
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