Just looks like a discolored coin to me?
Come to think of it, @Deacon Ray kindly created a "virtual" version for me as a surprise, a couple of years ago. :) (* Coins not to scale, and...
Oh, these are all wonderful - and I daresay many are poster- or desktop-wallpaper-worthy! I'm at a bit of a disadvantage, for obvious reasons ......
I guess Kufic is more of an archaic style of script than a language? Anyway... Turkey (Seljuks of Rûm): silver dirham of Kaykhusraw II; lion &...
Could that just be because these are (inexplicably) black-and-white photos?
Moved to Ancient Coins forum, as requested/suggested.
Brazil: copper 20-reis, 1820/9 (note the crazily prominent overdate) [IMG]
I don't see any letters there. Just some random staining that kind of looks like letters. I suspect this is a case of pareidolia. Even if those...
Keep the worn-out and interestingly-damaged stuff comin'.
Nice Hemipristis serra shark tooth fossil. I found a couple of those on my last outing. The ones we find here have darker coloration.
I think I recall seeing that photo before, but ... WOW.
"Weird Wellington & The Penguin Lady": Bizarre folk art carving on ca. 1811-1813 Canadian token [IMG] [IMG] Host coin: Undated (ca. 1811-1813)...
I have never seen a modern bimetallic coin so worn! That's pretty cool looking.
Around the millennium, having completed the Dansco 7070 type set, I decided to slab my collection and expand beyond the 7070 parameters into a...
Hopefully the Nutella coins were wrapped in something and not just dunked straight into the product! They should've done a 12 Caesars set. (I've...
I do not know much about these, but do know that counterfeits are abundant. The trouble for me is that some of the real ones look fake. It's...
Dang- nice stuff. I'm particularly enamored of that Flyin' Eagle.
I can't speak for @H8_modern, but there might be more where that came from- there were a lot of tokens in the lot I got that from. Probably not...
One from my current collection: Great Britain, silver shilling of George IV, ca. 1826-1829, off-center I received this coin as a generous...
You have a number of very interesting possibilities. I look forward to further dig reports and pictures!
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