That is the most unusual facial profile I have ever seen on one of those! The overstrike is really interesting. It made Marianne look like an...
Pete here just hatched, so don't turn him into fried chicken. Find another few eggs and you can make an omelet, though. Continue "food" theme,...
PS- WB2 - those photos are terrific. How blessed you are to have such magnificent neighbors! When you posted the more recent picture in another...
Don't be. It's cool and one of a kind that way. The Manx host coin is cool, too. I like those types with the triskeles on them.
Great pix, WB2. I have two owls in my sniper crosshairs right now. (On eBay, I mean. Not literally.) [ATTACH] [ATTACH] (One should never...
Interesting love token engraving.
32mm. Hmm. Bigger than I had imagined. These were perhaps nickel-sized in my mind's eye.
Crestfallen that I missed the opportunity to post my 1806 gilt proof halfpenny from the Eclectic Box earlier, I was happy to see @yarm (who sold...
*ribbit* As @Stork said: "Keep going, non-horse, non-lion, non-mythological, 4 legged beasties. Hairy or otherwise (so reptiles/amphibians okay...
I set out to do "four-legged animals" but decided I'd attempt to do this without resorting to lions or horses (or mythical beasties based on lions...
@David Atherton - anything to share on the significance of capricorns to Titus, or to the Flavians in general? Here's Titus again, in his own...
Most recent "newp" (new purchase). Iran (Persia): gold toman of Fath Ali Shah, AH 1233 (1817) [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Next, and likely to be...
Wow, that's rather astonishing. Reminds me of the Pushmi-pullyu in the Dr. Dolittle stories. [ATTACH]
Oh, so I'm not the only person who does that occasionally. :P Looks nice.
ROFL That's one helluva wasp's nest! 'Twas better than the joke I was about to crack about a meteor strike.
Hairlines, yes, but not terrible. I like it OK. Has that nice contrasting grey look I like on a circ Walker.
Me too, alas.
In a similar vein, I always wondered what's going on with this Republican denarius I have. Note the "booger" beneath Ceres' nose, and the ghostly...
Hard for me to say. There sure was some metal flow going on there! That thing looks nearly Mint State! Sweet coin. I would've said, "nah" on...
Groovy!
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