(Oh, hi there, @spirityoda - you snuck in while this was still under construction!) [IMG] (Continued) United States: cupronickel 5 cents,...
[IMG] (Continued) Iran (Persia): gold toman of Fath Ali Shah, AH 1233 (1817), Yazd mint [IMG] PCGS MS62; population 4 with none higher as of...
[IMG] Ireland: brass "gunmoney" halfcrown, July, 1690; struck during the Williamite-Jacobite War [IMG] PCGS AU53; population 1 - the only example...
[IMG] England: silver penny of King John, ca. 1213-1215, from the Gisors hoard found in Normandy [IMG] PCGS XF45; population 2 with none higher...
[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...
I would recommend you do some Google searches on tutorials for making a simple electrolysis rig. This is just one random article I pulled up....
Holy cow, those are some beautiful IHC! What's the grade on that 1872? Looks like PCGS prongs, there. That there is one pretty penny, and I'm...
I'm afraid it might take a bit more aggressive measures, and then you'll end up with a harshly cleaned coin (which still might be better than an...
Nice toning. I'll say 65 to play it safe but would not be surprised at 66. I really don't know. The toning makes it a bit challenging.
Naval jelly from a hardware store might work, but it would cost more than the coin would be worth, before or after. Probably not a whole lot you...
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I don't see any laminations (and have never seen a proof with one). Nor do I see any kind of error here at all. That being said, it's a pretty...
No more monkeys? OK, well, the 24-hour-stall rule comes into effect, then. Time to hit the reset button. How about ... swords? It's as good an...
Ahh... the mix tapes. Mine were heavy on the Moody Blues and Beatles and such, with some '80s New Wave mixed in.
I hit a run of about three or four rolls of War nickels once! They were all black and grungy, but I'll take free silver any way I can get it!
Ahh, that makes sense. Thank you. I never associated "forint" with "florin" before.
Yeah, the Lighthouse pages certainly aren't bad at all. I slightly prefer the Eagle pages, is all. The Lighthouse albums themselves are quite nice.
Forint is the modern currency unit of Hungary, I believe. I did not realize thst there were gold forints from that far back until I saw the one...
How marvelous it must be to be able to add coins like this to your collection by going outdoors and finding them, in the exact spots where they...
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