This is the only Irish coin I own now. [ATTACH]
Ha- my 1943 halfcrown was also a F15 slab crackout, though mine was cracked out of one of those really early PCI slabs with the photocertificate...
A gamble, for sure, and it would’ve been too big an acceptable risk for me personally, but if you get lucky and it pays off, then… wow. I lay...
I reckon I’ll do something like this later on. I just turned 60, and I will reach my 50th anniversary as a collector this November. I don’t know...
More "Mr_Spud" work, from CU: [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
Here's one from the CU forum thread, done by "Mr_Spud". Cool, huh? [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
There are some really great ones on that CU thread, including animated ones. But I think you need a full subscription to create those. I don't...
Queen Elizabeth learns what's been sneaking up behind her on the reverse of that coin all this time... [IMG] I liked how this one came out on...
I wanted to see what the Gemini bot made of my ancestor, William Bradford, and asked it to put him aboard the deck of the Mayflower. He got a...
Thought I'd try a Matron Head (Coronet) cent. [IMG] Credit to the AI for trying here, but nope. Liberty came out too young and thin (with too...
Nero famously "fiddled while Rome burned". I did specify that background in the prompt, but not the musical instrument in question. The AI got it...
There's a very popular thread about this on Collectors Universe. This was my first attempt, using Google's Gemini AI chatbot. I like how it...
Amazing find! I found an MS65-ish 1940 while coin roll hunting once upon a time, but never a Mint State War nickel!
Yep. Leave it.
These are neat, but I would have zero idea on how to distinguish a genuine ancient one from the artificially patinated modern replicas.
After I have good photos of them to share online, I put them away in my safe deposit boxes. I only bring them out to look at maybe three to five...
Interesting. I hope it pans out for you.
Back when I was doing the complete Irish predecimal types in the three Dansco albums, I might have bought one of those fakes just to fill that...
Aha. One from my giveaways. I was actually looking for a picture of that one. Since the CollecOnline site where I used to host my collections...
Yep, sorry- overlooked that.
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