That's a handsome set! When I completed it, mine were all circs with holes in 'em! ;)
Y'all are killin' me with those awesome brockages. Vabalathus & Aurelian are all I've got, in the images from my old 2007-08 collection. [IMG]...
@Bman33's "Quit Your Day Job to Become a Coin Dealer?" thread inspired me to dust off another one of my old Collectors Universe posts, to...
I used to have dreams of being a coin dealer, but have long since given that idea up and resumed life as strictly a collector. Even when I was...
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Trust me, I was admiring, not lamenting. :)
Well, now, doesn't that one just grind mine into the dirt? LOL ;)
A 1913 Type 2 USA Buffalo nickel, found in Brunswick, GA's Hanover Park, not far from the Confederate monument. (Sorry the coin picture is...
About six pounds, if I recall correctly. But the large cent date set on the back counterbalanced it nicely, so it felt just like a normal garment...
Nice silvering on that Aurelian ant in the OP, and I like the round flan and surfaces and die break on the SevAlex sestertius. Here's a Claudius...
Back to the Holey Coin Vest for a solution. I was shut out for a while, since the coins in play were too modern for the stuff I have photos of,...
I figured that HAD to be a replica. But it also must've been a real adrenaline rush for the person who found it like that!
@jtlee321 - you certainly get a lot of bang for the buck! Of course, being a whiz-bang master of coin photography doesn't hurt either, when it...
With only a hundred bucks, I'd buy the coolest love tokens or hobo carvings I could find, and know that I had bought something truly unique that...
Not even close to AU, but decent coins, certainly for melt value.
Fantastic. November of 2013 happens to have been the very month I was on my detecting trip in the UK. Hoard provenance in a collection is always...
They're almost like Celtic coins with the addition of symmetry.
... and the Crabby Critter Coin. [IMG]
Oh yeah- my "bargain" JC. [IMG]
@Roman Collector - I really like the appearance of that Faustina sestertius. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
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