I concur. It looks like a modern Chinese counterfeit of an older Japanese coin. Still might make a fun pocket piece or golf ball marker or...
You're pretty spry for a 108-year-old.
Dunno. Thankfully, my dental gold handling was minimal.
It is a Mexican wedding token. Coinquest article Wikipedia page Edit- wow, this was an old thread. @Angelica - take it to a jeweler and get...
Yes, by "grading", I did assume @nkim8888 was referring to sending them off to a professional third-party grading service (TPG). Thank you for...
I love how you're getting the "university education" on ancients. At the rate you're going, you'll surpass me. (That might not take long. I...
I don't know about the blob, but I like the grey look of that SLQ (what I can see of it). :)
I wasn't there that day,but I suppose he did buy it (after washing it off, one hopes). As to pounding the amalgam out of a bag of gold teeth with...
You have some very intriguing medieval coins here. Some of the designs look vaguely familiar but not enough for me to identify personally. The...
Why would you spend $100+ to grade four cents? I mean literally... four cents.
The coin shop where I briefly worked as a junior assistant bought scrap gold at the time. Including dental gold. One day they said they watched...
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Apparently all this broke while I was on hiatus. As a fan of "desert" patinas, and VCoins, this was eye-opening, and disturbing (as eye-openings...
Thanks. Wow, that is some rapier wit. Remind me to never do anything underhanded that @Bob L and @red_spork, et al might discover! That's the...
Oops. Sorry. I shall defer to your superior experience, then. Scratch the Zurqieh recommendation. Admittedly, my experience with them is but...
For you podcast fans out there, I just discovered and began listening to The History of Byzantium Podcast, which seems quite promising. I'm...
Very interesting. Thanks.
@alurid - If you're quick, you can repost that 1905 Swedish coin after this. BTW, those who like 16th century French coins might like that dig...
Here, @alurid. With another dug IHC I can make your Swedish coin playable. Stand by...
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