Thanks. That must've been it. I love "Meet the Ancestors".
I'd go MS63.
They would indeed. They make replica sets of the Lewis Chessmen.
Twice I've "eyeball-found" Buffalo nickels in older locations. And Wheaties, two or three times. Another time I found a 1948 Washington quarter,...
Oy! It sure does look extremely "fakey"! Mind you, I don't know the type, but this one throws up all kinds of instinctive red flags with me....
See? VAMming makes you go blind, kiddies. LOL
Yeah. The mainstream press made another whoopsie, it seems. LOL :facepalm: But yes, fascinating finds. I once watched a BBC show that featured...
PS- @Tyler Graton - that's a cool find. Was it cleaned like that when you found it? If so, it wasn't on the ground long. Ground finds don't...
My oldest "found on the ground" coin is pretty astonishingly old! And yes, this was an "eyeball" find. Did not even have my detector that day....
Ahmm... @Seattlite86 - about that ... before we left town, ladymarcovan was kind enough to do my mailing the other day. However, since yours is...
@TIF - I will hit the "like" button twice if you'll post an image of a quadekadrachm with a biga of winged boars. Thrice for a quadriga! LOL :P
Lovely medal, as usual. I particularly like the intricate reverse on this one. I think I've said this before, but for a Renaissance medallic...
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German States (Saxony) silver 3 mark proof, Battle of Leipzig centennial commemorative, 1913-E [IMG] (PCGS PR62 DCAM)
@Siberian Man - I see you just changed your pictures to full-size format instead of thumbnails. That's much better! I love those Portuguese...
PS- that was a very classy gesture on @paddyman98's part! PPS- I would have said you're crazy for thinking about the "guitar pick" thing, but I...
Yes, another US coin brings us to 1914, but hey, this was my second-best cherrypick of all time. Paid somewhere between three and five cents for...
Neat stuff. Those are indeed "the cool kind". Hey, why don'tcha find some other kind of photo backdrop besides the multicolored (rug? blanket?...
Well-worn. That baby's seen 51 years of circulation, is all. Worth a quarter. Kind of fun to see one that's done its job for half a century,...
Interesting. I did not know that. Of course I always use Google for searches. Yahoo? What's that? LOL Edit to add: sometimes I'll add "......
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