Great patina, and lovely 19th century painting. Herod looks rather fierce and somber there. The lass with the pending wardrobe malfunction...
Both stunning group lots, and very appealing in how well matched they are. @Carausius - I love your avatar picture, too, though one has to click...
I only joined the world of mobile data a few months ago. My old phone didn't have it, either. I can sympathize. Boy, I sure love having it now.
I had these same thoughts. But WDIK. It's hard for me to say for sure, here.
I've never done pinbacks, but holeys, yes, indeed! And love tokens. I've continued with the love token thing and am now on my third collection...
Y'all are WAY more organized than I am! My solution, since I've posted stuff willy-nilly all over the Internet for the last 18 years, is to...
Holey World coins from the front of the Holey Coin Vest (continued) Greece: silver 1/2 drachma, 1855 [IMG] Guatemala (Spanish Colonial): silver...
I thought about it, with a few of the tiny California gold fractionals. I had one with only a thread-thin bit of metal closing the hole. But no,...
Holey World coins from the front of the Holey Coin Vest (continued) Canada (Nova Scotia): bronze cent, 1861 [IMG] Central American Republic:...
Holey World coins from the front of the Holey Coin Vest (In alphabetical order by country) Austria: silver 10-kreuzer, 1770-A [IMG] Austria:...
Let's rescue some of the pictures from the burning Photobucket shipwreck. First, from the Holey Gold Hat album: Byzantine Empire: gold solidus...
It's hard for me to say. I'd submit it to a TPG for authentication. Chewy or not, the lettered edge boosts its credibilty a tiny bit to me. But...
It's not my cuppa tea, but I don't hate it, either. It doesn't automatically scream "AT!" to me from what I can make out in those shaky pictures,...
What alurid said.
Looks nice, but I personally would prefer some TPG plastic around it before I pulled the trigger. That's not gonna be a cheap coin, obviously.
Sweet! I collected British and English coins in a monarch portrait set back in the early 1990s. Though the collection went back to Norman times,...
PS- it might not be relevant to this particular case, but this classic, much-cited webpage is worth a read.
I don't think it's that ugly. I mean... it's a 1796 dollar, fer cryin' out loud! That is, IF it's genuine. I see some softness in the details...
And bacon. Don't forget. Bacon sammiches all around. @TypeCoin971793 - I'm sorry you got hosed, regardless of how much or how little you might...
I had a bronze Roman ring with a carnelian stone seal into which a capricorn was carved intaglio. I received it from an anonymous and very...
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