Never read the Meditations. Have any of you? I'm sure several here have. This denarius was in my old 2007-08 novice collection. It might be...
Nice find nonetheless. I have found maybe three or four proofs over the years. Weirdly, one was under the driver's seat of my own car. I wasn't...
Interesting. I wonder how long it will be before someone finds one and comes asking about it on the forums.
Excellent find! I've never gotten a Merc out of circulation or bank rolls- ever- in 44 years of collecting.
There’s part of the letters there. That’s good enough fo VG. The headband is flat on G4 coins.
Not a bad set of ideas in theory, but I’m certain there would be myriad issues with trying to implement something like that in reality. You’re...
Fortunately the ones I saw were blatantly obvious. And the real coins I was buying were $20-30 items, tops, so not exactly high-end stuff.
They're still looking grainy and of rather low resolution, but the last few are an improvement. The Indian cent picture is almost serviceable. I...
I recently bought several big 5-kopeck pieces from the 1700s on eBay and did notice that there were a number of obvious fakes being sold. I don't...
No, it merely means that you need to focus more on the coin than what the label says, because there are substandard coins in TPG holders too. The...
Same way as coins still get lost. But bigger silver coins like half dollars are rather scarce finds, because they often got seen on the ground...
Times were tough in Germany then. Besides, they already had a thriving porcelain industry in places like Meissen.
VG details, polished.
Excellent. Thank you.
You paid $90 for an uncleaned ancient coin? Hopefully you mean more than one.
I'd never heard of them.
Ditto. I love how those late-medieval/Renaissance-era Spanish coppers so often come with nice earthen patina. Here is a nice (but very...
Yes. They're fine if they are pedigreed to an actual historical hoard. And if they are, it's sort of up to you to decide whether that's worth a...
That is one sweet pistareen!
No, it's isn't. It's better than that. More in the vicinity of VG10 to maybe not quite F12, I'd say. Here are the PCGS/Photograde standards....
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