What to do with damaged coins? That's entirely up to you. I know a guy who used to have a thing for holed coins. ;)
I agree.
Winners- your goodies have been shipped. @Craigescape - While preparing your shipment, I finally opened the package containing your "gold coin"...
That's a funny coincidence. I wonder if @panzerman's example is the exact coin shown on the cover. Could very well be.
Indeed!
That's a neat error subway token in your avatar. Never seen one of those with a misplaced cutout.
Can't resist posting my Tigurum (Zurich) 1739 cityview half-thaler again. Love this coin. It seems to be a crowd-pleaser, too. Click the...
Yes, it must have been a vantage point from the top of a hill... or a skilled, imaginative engraver.
@Paddy54 has a private profile. Maybe he'll see this now that I have tagged him. I will try to contact him for you.
Gotta love that! An error coin inside an error slab. Neat.
Stunning. It almost looks like an aerial city view, which would've been difficult since I don't think there was even any ballooning yet at the time.
@Rick Hudson- welcome! I like that you kept your buffalo nickel find all these years. It was a childhood find more than 40 years ago that...
I love early dated coins. That's a neat one. There's an 18th century Julich-Berg copper (a stuber, maybe?) in my as-yet unsorted, unresearched...
ROFL A most excellent meme.
I don't object to those. They have some relation to history, however tentatively. "Swamp People", though? Pure trash.
Back when the "History" Channel was still worth a bean and still showing programming that actually had some relation to history, they had a...
That's true- Hollywood is seldom useful as a history teacher, but can be a useful cheerleader. Watch the movie, get interested in the characters,...
@Dougmeister- you should get one! Edward I's coins are relatively inexpensive in comparison to other English medievals. I dug mine up in a farm...
Both nice.
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