Good heavens, that "snake cowboy" Domitian is sure attention-grabbing, even without the fun GIF animation! Wow.
Hiss! (but not "boo-hiss") (It is a good cartoon, despite the quirky caption spelling. Who needs that silly silent "e", anyway, right?)
I concur. Zinc is a wretched metal for coinage. (The Nazis used it extensively during WW2 at home and in their occupied territories, so there...
I am presently on a desktop PC at work, with the Chrome browser. Nope, I didn't have any issues with the links once I was on the site. Mind you,...
"Bygones" from the "Eclectic Box" (continued) United States: copper Draped Bust large cent, 1803 (small date, large fraction)[IMG] United...
In 2013, I did a major purge of my coin collection and sold almost everything, then started all over again from scratch. I sold a lot of nice...
Back in 2014, I bought this one raw, for a modest premium over melt, and sent it off to PCGS. I was happy with the grade. It didn't last long in...
My Adobe Flash player on this machine at work did not like your link and refused to load anything, but after an excruciatingly long wait, it did...
It is unusual looking, but I suspect it was tumbled, either mechanically like in a dryer, or a rock tumbler, or even environmentally, like if it...
I think environmental factors like sulfur have something to do with it much of the time, though I couldn't tell you what specific chemical...
Doesn't look anything like steel to me in those pictures. Not that a 1962-D cent would have anything to do with steel anyway, unless somebody had...
Yes, the coin in the original post is a copper-plated zinc cent with some bubbling of the outer plating, most likely due to corrosion. So it's...
"Rom"? Sounds like "Rûm"! :hilarious:
Has anybody else tried using the lookup feature on that website? I did, and got no results. Mind you, there are no coin dealers in my town or...
*ahem* That would be the Eclectic Box (... of 38! Way more than twenty since last year!) ;) I don't see why @ilmcoins couldn't put a link in his...
Great Britain and Bahrain. [IMG] Thailand and Yugoslavia (the latter doesn't exist anymore as a nation) [IMG] Indonesia and (West) Germany....
Yes, all of the American coins are just face-value pieces ("spenders" rather than "keepers"). The World coins here all of very low value. So...
Thought I'd resurrect this discussion, since I revisited the OP to get pix of that ring. Who else has some more interesting "non-coin" ancient...
Indeed! Nice gift! I gave my Mom an ancient Roman ring with a carved carnelian intaglio featuring a capricorn, since we share that zodiac...
That's a nice one. @Aethelred and I were discussing "monkey" coins recently, over on CoinTalk. He likes monkeys. I was unaware of this type.
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