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Excellent post! Lovely coin.
Many thanks to @Ajax- I received the Seleucid coin (first one pictured in the OP) today. [IMG] As promised, I did my own silver giveaway*, and a...
Larson is another nonfiction author like Tony Horwitz, Bill Bryson, and Mary Roach, that I try to read every title by. Definitely a favorite....
@paddyman98 - when I went on my detecting trip to England in 2013, I was with six other guys. Everyone in the group but me was using the Minelab...
OK, so in the end, we had 78 replies to this thread. So I went to random.org and had the random number generator pick a number between 1 and 78....
Tough coin. I've never had Pescennius Nigher, or Didius Julianus. Pupienus was probably the scarcest emperor I've had so far.
A few cherrypicking selections from The Great Exonumia Bulk Bag (Part 3) Here are just a few more 10c cherrypicking items from that big sack of...
Consider my permission to reprint it granted, if anyone wants to submit it.
A few cherrypicking selections from The Great Exonumia Bulk Bag (Part 2) Let's step back into the 1800s with some really nasty Hard Times tokens...
A few cherrypicking selections from The Great Exonumia Bulk Bag (Part 1) In the summer of 2014, I bought a 12-pound sack of various exonumia...
Y'all don't literally have to type the word "once", in red or otherwise. ;) I merely was asking everyone to limit themselves to a single reply on...
They are, actually. LOL So you won't have to rub 'em down to make 'em worth more. ;)
"Souvenir of an Invasion": WW1 German trench art on 1904 Belgian 10-centime coin) [IMG] Larger obverse picture Larger reverse picture Host coin:...
I remember these counterstamped cents being quite popular when I started collecting in the mid-1970s. They were advertised in mainstream...
Welcome. @Aethelred and @Deacon Ray ought to like these. I'm vaguely familiar with the types and the history behind these, but only a little bit.
Woohoo! I got lucky, on the very coin I liked! Thanks! I pledged to do my own giveaway if I won a coin in this one, so here goes!
I recently pledged to do my own giveaway* if by some chance I happened to win in @Ajax 's ancient coin drawing. Well, Lo and behold, I did, and...
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Yes, MS70 (or in this case PR70, for a proof) is the very top of the American Sheldon scale of grading used by TPGs (third-party grading...
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