#307 blows mine outta the water!
Oh, and your getting it in Bermuda itself means little. The fakes are marketed specifically to tourists, just as they are in Greece and Italy and...
Any shop that would SCRATCH a coin to test it has no idea what they are doing!!! :eek::nailbiting::hungover::banghead::wideyed:o_O Cleaning is...
Not error coins, but nice old pieces! I believe the first is from Gelderland in the Netherlands. I totally love that second one with the ship,...
I would've liked to have gotten in on the ground floor of this. Too late now, I suppose, but since the ancient portion of my small collection is...
What they said. Nice stuff!
Looks great. A teeny bit of hazy toning, but no big deal. I agree with @spirityoda. Leave it as-is. Buy a new holder for it. Again- nice...
Here it is on this little Eudoxia AE I once owned in my first Roman collection. I recognized the circular thing as a wreath, but the little blob...
Neat! I had no idea this was an ancient motif, though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised to learn that. Here is a nice, big medieval coin I had...
If you'll forgive my straying slightly from the topic at hand, what do you suppose caused those near-circular arcs of concentric striations on a...
It does appear to be die struck, and perhaps the initials indicate some fraternal organization? Dunno. I agree with @Oldhoopster about the blank...
That's a replica, but it's a more convincing replica than many I've seen. As @Muzyck mentioned, the real ones are quite rare and expensive. They...
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OK, here we go. 1936 or USA, to the next player. This humble Merc dime from 1936 came into my possession on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, when I found...
@Stork- I've always loved those- great Art Deco design. If memory serves, I think you sent me a circulated example of one of those, once?...
This. Sound advice. The part about "handling by the edges only" is always good practice, but vital on proof coins, due to the "skin oils" issue...
Happy to do it, though @Aethelred shortened my research path considerably by narrowing it down to one location to start the search from. I'd have...
I'm a sucker for pictorial love tokens. Even though this one is on a common-date Seated dime and it's not that intricate, I liked it. I suppose...
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