Wow.
With my mother and sister in Florida a few days ago. [ATTACH] Edited to add: while some of y'all were probably shoveling snow, I was swimming...
I hereby dub thee "Ken Forkbeard". Numismatic note, copied from Wikipedia: [IMG] A coin of Sweyn Forkbeard, minted in 995; this is the earliest...
I suspected as much. Just being clear, for the benefit of our thread author.
Merged the duplicate threads.
They do not. No Ike dollar, be it copper-nickel clad or silver, should stick to a magnet. Those metals are not magnetic. (Pure nickel in...
A lot of cents and other coins got plated with silver-colored metal for use in charm bracelets in the 1950s, but those usually will have some...
I think it's less a case of being in bad shape than the fact that it was rather primitively made in the first place.
That's the most silvering I can recall seeing on a Helena.
Oh. That's awesome.
I believe Dea Caelestis is hurling a thunderbolt as she gallops along on lionback here, though the thunderbolt in question looks more like she's...
Wild guess? Medieval. The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, maybe. Disclaimer: that is a mostly-uninformed wild guess, with nothing to back it up, since...
Good luck! Yes, there are more treasures to be found, for sure. I agree. My grandchildren are not yet born, but if one of them doesn't show an...
Five bucks? Ha! Even if it's fake, that's a good deal.
Well, we've got Paul Bunyan here in North America, after all. Small wonder it's such a popular theme. It's interesting to see how the mythology...
Here's an ancient Greek Wildman of sorts. The obverse portrait is variously described as a satyr or the god Pan (who was the god of... what else?...
I love this one, where he's really swung the tree around. It's a handsome coin regardless, but I just like this particular rendering of the...
Lo, there he is. I like what you did with it, artistically. If I had more sophisticated software and skills, I'd play around like that, too. As...
That one would certainly be nice enough for my collection, too. I quite like the color, surfaces, and contrasting appearance.
I'll bet they're all nice, but I kind of like the small (i.e., affordable) €5 proof gold.
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