@coin_nut - regarding your top coin there- While I was bookmarking stuff for Secret Saturnalia (the Ancients Forum's Secret Santa exchange), I...
I too have had raw Gem BU examples in the past (including one that might've been at least MS66-67 quality if slabbed), but when I was able...
PCGS MS65. Another relatively common, but beautiful, coin. This was my last 2018 newp. [ATTACH]
Imagine the look you would get if you went up to the average 21st century child, asked him to put down the digital device in his hands, and play...
Yes, but buttons that big were the fashion in the late 1700s. By the mid-1800s, they had gone out of fashion. So I suspect this coin was indeed...
You'll know soon enough. He ain't the kind to leave you hangin'.
Nope, or I'd have been hunting for descendants instead of buyers from the get-go, instead of being prodded into it. Glad it worked out the way it...
Thanks. I thought that was it, but couldn't remember for sure.
Remind me what the significance of the temple doors being open or closed was. Was it something to do with war? I forget.
Not Janus, but janiform. Greece (Mysia, Lampsakos): silver diobol; janiform heads and Athena, ca. 4th-3rd century BC [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Happy New Year! Congratulations! Keep digging! Show us some action shots of you and some of these landscapes, if you are able and willing to....
Damaged coin. Worth silver melt value. Don't make it worse by harshly scrubbing it. That wouldn't change the value, since it's worth melt,...
And finally, here we have Nancy Ferazzuolo, Vesta's granddaugher, holding Vesta and Howard's long-lost love token, which is now back in the family...
You should! Check this out. *
NLL won several of my giveaways in the past. Lucky duck! Congrats, @NLL! Random chances sure love you! If I ever went to Vegas (won't...
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