But a peanut butter-filled cow hoof? Howzabout that, hmm?
I've had quite a few pop.1 coins. It isn't that hard to achieve once you step off the well-trodden US path and out into the wider world a bit....
... so is figuring out how and/or why @Seattlite86 suddenly lapsed into German partway through Post #13. ;)
Yeah, it takes some work. Arabic is tough for me.
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The first coins in that link have The Great Sphinx on them. That's a huge clue. You know where the Sphinx is, don't you? ;) It's not really...
All those private auctions...
His portraits are always so nicely struck.
I've already got most of my package put together, though I do not yet know who my recipient will be. I have a book about a certain Roman emperor...
Used and abused over the past half century. Very abused, it would seem. It is worth ... ten cents. Keep lookin'.
What are you looking at on the dime? That looks like a "spender", too.
Neat. That's the most offset misaligned die coin I've seen. @paddyman98's estimation of value sounds right to me. He knows this stuff pretty well.
Corrosion. Not sure if it was caused by acid or not. Likely environmental, as mentioned. Like paddyman said, it's kinda cool lookin', though.
November 21, 2018: Update Summary We have had 5 arrivals and 3 departures since last time. What was a "box of twenty" collection for years has...
[IMG] (Continued) United States: copper "Hard Times" token; C.D. Peacock Jeweler, Chicago, "1837" (1902) [IMG] PCGS MS63 BN; population 1 - the...
[IMG] (Continued) United States: copper large cent, Coronet type, 1818; likely from the Randall Hoard found in 1869 [IMG] PCGS MS62 BN;...
[IMG] German States (Teutonic Order): silver 1/4-thaler of Grand Master Maximilian of Austria, ca. 1615 [IMG] PCGS XF45; population 1 with 1...
[IMG] Sicily (Norman Kings): gold tari of Guglielmo I ("William the Bad"), ca. 1154-1166 AD [IMG] Presently uncertified; ex-Nomos AG. England:...
[IMG] Greece (Ionia, Phokaia): electrum hekte; Athena and quadripartite punch, ca. 478-387 BC [IMG] NGC VF; Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5. Greece...
[IMG] Lord Marcovan's "Eclectic Box" collection In 2013, I did a major purge of all my coin collections and decided to simplify to just one...
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