Congrats! That's a very handsomely toned piece.
Dutch East Indies? That looks like Dutch language on there. Aha! Yep. (Thanks, Wikipedia. I love you.)
I guess it all depends on the issues with the coin. Never having sent a coin out for professional conservation, I couldn't tell you. All I can...
Because there is obviously a pepperoni pizza behind Jesus' head? Good 'nuf reason for me! ;)
The May giveaway is up, now.
(Ignore this post. I had to upload pix of the Bicentennial medal here, since I kept getting errors when trying to edit the OP to add them....
[ATTACH] (@Siberian Man - what does that say at the bottom? Hopefully not "the missiles are coming!") Welcome to May! :) (Couldn't resist a...
OK, so I forgot to bring the package with the gold coin in it to work with me, so as of yet, it remains unopened, and we don't know what it looks...
Well, folks, here are our April winners! :) The four names below were selected by the random number generator. @Craigescape's number came up,...
OK, drawing a new name for the 60-coin stockbook in the OP, since we never heard from the initial winner. The new winner is...
Not unclaimed for long. Let me catch up on all my PMs and other threads and I'll re-draw the winner for this contest, so I can ship out the March...
Yours? Nice one.
Oh, snap! I love that type, want some kind of ship-themed ancient, and had my eye on a Hadrian like this not long ago, but forum consensus was...
No harm taken- I just couldn't go with a negative atttibution like, "This isn't a ..." Had to call 'em something, even if that attribution was...
You almost certainly know more than I do, even if it's a case of knowing what they aren't. But without being provided an alternate attribution...
They were presented to me as being struck by the Amirs of Sindh. That attribution seems plausible enough to me until proven otherwise. (But I...
I see you've got a very healthy collection of Features, and deservedly so. "Snake Cowboys" was a classic! :):hilarious:
@dpoole! It took me sec to do a double-take after realizing I was seeing you over here instead of on CU! Groovy.
I'm rather surprised Peter gave this "Featured Thread" status. I was gonna post it on FAQ, but I've always considered a homepage "Feature" to be...
Regarding the coin in the OP, I agree. I wouldn't crack it.
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