PS- @Eric the Red - oh, hey, welcome! It didn’t dawn on me that you were new here, perhaps because I’m used to seeing posts from @TheRed, one of...
Yes, my fire burned really hot for Roman Imperials in 2007-08, during my first year collecting them. In that short time I acquired somewhere...
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Yes. Yours is definitely a “?”.
Don't feel too bad. A lot of the discourse here flies way over my head as well. And I've now collected ancients for 14 of my 44 years as a...
Ditto!
I like the Guernsey coin for its look. Besides, I've always liked the 8-doubles pieces. The Nicaraguan is neat, too. And the Nazi Potsdam...
... the ruby is sweet, too.
I like it very much, for the money. Has a little bit of a copper CircCam look goin' on.
I heard a secondhand story about someone bringing a Mint State 1794 dollar into my first dealer mentor’s shop one day. “Yep, I hit ‘er with...
Sad confession: I’ve done it myself, though on stuff like common, heavily worn Barber dimes rather than rare early stuff. Yeah, even baking soda,...
He scrubbed helloutofit, didn’t he? :(
Yeah, OK. Ouch, indeed. That was a fumble.
“RO”?
Baking soda. Ouch. :( Yeah, I’ll read later. At work now. Typed that last long reply during a short break.
I see it, though I only peeked at the pics and haven’t read the article yet. Sure, it probably could’ve been cleaned more carefully, but one...
I can recommend this short podcast series to anyone who’d like an interesting listen during one’s daily commute or chores....
Just on a guess, I’d say it was very likely still a 19th century item, though perhaps Victorian and thus not quite as early as George IV. Sure,...
Exactly. It’s a quirk of British Indian coins I like. The eternally young Vickie. She stayed young on nongold Canadian coins, too, though on...
Yeah, I know, but my gloves got all greenified, too. Oh, my. I get excited enough about lots that contain a good number of Vickies from the 19th...
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