Oh, yes. To me, it's all about the contrasting patina. I love that brassy orichalcum with that appearance.
It's graffiti, but unusual enough to be unique and somewhat interesting. Given that some naughty person put human breasts on the eagle, it could...
I don't think it's cast. This type shouldn't be, as you know. I think the slightly granular surfaces can be explained away as micro-porosity...
Ta-dahh! The coin was a 1926-S Oregon Trail half dollar. As it happens, it remains to this day the only Oregon Trail I've owned. I was utterly...
Yep, the girls will be after him for sure ... at least until they find out he's a coin nerd! :hilarious:
It does look quite brassy.
Hey, speaking of family reunions, I didn't expect to see my sister posting here!
It could be solder. That would be a bummer.
("Likes" from our Fearless Leader are not lightly given! It is something of an inside joke.)
@spirityoda was the Big Santa here, with all those slabs and silver coins. The one slab I sent was the ICG with the Gallery Mint token. I got...
I didn't say it was half-dollar sized. Just that I thought it was a Walker at first, when I saw those rays. And that it wasn't big enough to be...
Except perhaps the day before yesterday, when a certain Orange Bandit (aka Lily Bug) leaped upon the stove in an attempt to steal an entire pork...
Wasn't that big. (But yes, the rays do sorta look like the ones on a Peace dollar.)
The greyish, quarter-sized disc was not, alas, a silver quarter. It was an old 10-cent trade token from the Atlanta Press & Radio Club, which I...
(Later, with the hotel night audit run...) Let's see what's here, shall we? :) Ah! A Netherlands (West Frisia) silver 2-stuiver piece with a...
I think it's possible that's a legitimate planchet flaw, though I'm not 100% certain on that. Edit- no, after looking again and noticing the...
Back to my earlier post. Inside, there were some ... coins! Imagine that! [ATTACH] I shall elaborate more on this later. Like Santa and his...
Great finds!
I had to Google to see who Aaron Rodgers was, but yeah, there is some resemblance there.
Lovely, lovely toning on that one, which of course is a lovely type. Here is mine, a HT M21, PCGS MS63 BN, which was discussed in that last...
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