The strike on that Hungarian denar is amazing. Like the young Plautilla portrait, too.
Let's swap a "c" for an "r" and head SSE, and Iceland becomes Ireland. [IMG]
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That is really supercool, and it does actually have a unique beauty to it, in a spare, minimalistic way. The "levitation effect" is quite striking.
Indeed! Never ceases to amaze me how you pull these bargains off. I'd be proud to get any ancient silver for twenty bucks or less. Yes,...
But what if wombat foreskins are perishable? :nailbiting:
Oh. Sorry. No, I clicked through relatively briefly and more looked at pictures than read much. I'll have to go back and do that.
Likely a royal or diplomatic presentation piece struck with penny dies, would be my guess. Certainly would not have been intended for normal...
I did. I passed on the Lizzie. But perhaps @Curtisimo will go there. I'm passing on the Griffin and the other coin, too, but perhaps only...
My gift is being shipped outside the country, so apologies in advance to the recipient if it should arrive in a slightly tardy manner. I had...
Here is one that should be arriving in @MontCollector's mailbox in the next day or two. I got it in a box lot from @Aethelred and @Mark Metzger...
Yes, hence my aside about "he'd probably still kill you". Joe Stalin and Saddam Hussein were also both somewhat handsome and rather jovial...
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You Eurodudes (Brits included) have so much more interesting currency. We USA-ers are so stuck in our ways. That's why our govenment continues...
OK, I have done some hard thinking and I have made up my mind. Will it be Coin A, Coin B, or Coin C? I've decided to pass on Coin A (the English...
Re. the Nurnberg klippe, I had one of those on my old Holey Coin Vest, and loved it. It was one of my favorite "holeys". The little boy on the...
Kinda what I figured. Which would explain why some notes have two heads and others three, I suppose.
Your innocently-intended joke was funny, actually. ;) Or would've been, without the (now-happily-resolved) drama.
Sorry, I fell way behind on this thread and am just coming back in. Where are we? Ah, yes. 1754. [IMG]
Wow, what a portrait! I've seen some really funny ones from the 17th and 18th centuries (big wigs, huge honkin' noses, Hapsburg jaws, and the...
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