As a former detectorist, I used to muse on things like this a lot. Apparently the thing about leaves is that their decomposition produces acidic...
Awesome. I'd have a bunch if I had a big safe like that to keep them in.
@dadams - the Constantine campgate in the OP is finally on its way to you, now that you bought it for the second time! :hilarious: Let us all...
Oh, that's a lovely design. Haven't seen that one before. That's pretty doggone cool, too. I love all the winged critters, the octolabe on the...
OK, who's got 1620? This one has that date below the ship, but I don't think that quite counts. ;) [IMG]
My thoughts exactly! :greedy::greedy::greedy:
I've started putting my cost and other pertinent notes in the "private notes" section of each coin's listing on my CollectiveCoin page. That...
Fun find.
If y'all were both bodybuilders, I suppose I could crack a joke about "two all-beef Paddies, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions – on...
Whoa! Another double Paddy posting! Always messes with my head. LOL :p
Here's a "challenge coin" with monkeys on it that I bought recently, to give to a friend who's into monkeys. "Not my circus, not my monkeys." A...
Oops- thought I was posting on the "themes" thread, not the "time machine" thread. Let me see if I have a 1620 to post. Edit - alas, no. :(
Excellent thread. I live in Brunswick (Georgia), which is named for the old Brunswick in Germany. I've thought about collecting Brunswick...
Oh! Hungarian denars. Forgot about those. :) I was briefly collecting those by date. Here are a few of the nicely toned ones I was lucky...
Unfortunately, @Aethelred has known me so long that he's privy to some of my personal poo stories. (Privy? Get it? Ha.)
Huh? kneck (plural knecks) (Britain, nautical) The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out.
As the previous respondent mentioned, it is a 1919-S Buffalo nickel. Prior to 1866, there was no such thing as a "nickel", meaning the...
I'm afraid you're seeing things. It's nothing but a corroded nickel which says (or once said) FIVE CENTS under Monticello, like all of them.
If it's any consolation, the song is now stuck in my head, whether I want it there or not.
That's the nicest double tournois I've seen at all! I didn't know there were any with female portraits. There's one or two in my swapstock box....
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