When I was a kid and my mail order coins arrived, I used to feverishly tear open the packages on the spot. Nowadays, for whatever reason, I tend...
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Wholesome. CircCam.
Key date!
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I will say that I like that piece, aside from the fact that it’s holed through the date. I’d prefer the hole at the top of the obverse. I need a...
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Thanks for the final update!
And I disagree that holing is the worst problem that could be present on a genuine coin. A holed coin that’s otherwise attractive is vastly...
There is no hard and fast formula. I personally tally a holed coin at around half the value of what an unholed example would cost, but that’s...
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Thank you, but I’ve sold this collection. I’m still working on a holey 19th century type set, but I have the copper-nickel Indian cent.
Oh, you’d better believe it!
Here’s the cert page, with the answer… https://www.pcgs.com/cert/46216374
More than a day’s wage for a soldier, so yeah, it would have bought you a good bit of wine. An amphora full, perhaps.
It sounds to me like you “get it”. That’s a huge reason so many of us are enraptured by ancient coins. And this one is very ancient indeed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaemenid_coinage# That article says a gold Daric was roughly the monthly wage for a soldier. So your silver...
So based on that info (thanks), it looks like @MaryContrary ’s coin dates between 424-338 BC. That’s pretty old, as coins go!
Good point. I guess quite a lot of them did.
It is indeed a bit “baggy”, but it’s also a silver dollar sized coin that’s pretty tough in higher grades.
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