I have never seen an original. I presume they are quite rare/scarce. The restrike was modeled off of an example in the Muenzkabinett in Vienna....
I guess this is classified as exonumia. It was issue by an official mint (Vienna), but it is not legal tender. It is a restrike of a 2 Ducat...
"Be careful what you wish for, you may just get it" I voted NO, for reasons already explained by other posters. However, I do like the...
Hi @Dave M , I hope you don't mind me posting this here also. Fits in nicely. You have a fantastic collection! I look forward to your newps!...
I have this restrike in silver already, but I pulled the trigger on the gold one and it arrived yesterday. This is my only gold coin in my...
Some 3 years ago I decided to work (slowly) on a date series set of France 1 Franc Sowers (semeuse in French) from 1898-1920. The design is one...
Here are two from my collection: [IMG] [IMG]
It's kind of hard to accuse them of any funny business when they are then listing the coins at no reserve on eBay...that in no ways guarantees...
The only way to get people to do certain things is to force them to do it. It's easy enough to remove incandescent bulbs from production /...
I use LED lights from IKEA (Jansjo) for all of my coin images. They are about as cheap as they come at $9.99 each (for the lamp and all, not just...
...and other sells for 20% of price guide. :D Thus the argument that price-guides are pretty much worthless.
Just a note for those of you mentioning the Professional Edition. In the release of this new DELUXE edition, it stated the following (note the...
Looks like a 66 shot to me.
One I had kept an example of from eBay back in August 2014. [IMG]
This thread deserves a cliché: "If you want a coin in a specific grade and a specific TPG holder, then buy it that way." I am surprised the US...
OK, I found a thread on the NGC site with a reply from David Lange. He said that "It was around 1995 that NGC began to grade coins dated 1965 and...
Chris, NGC added the USA "Modern" tier to their submission forms on June 1, 2002. That encompassed coins from 1955 to present. I'm not sure...
Doug spreading mis-information yet again...complete hog-wash. :rolleyes: There are oodles of coins post-1964 slabbed in the 1990s by NGC. For...
Tom, great advice and insight. Best post I have read here in a very very very long time.
...continued... [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] ... OK...Up to date now... :D
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