A few cherrypicking selections from The Great Exonumia Bulk Bag (Part 2) Let's step back into the 1800s with some really nasty Hard Times tokens...
A few cherrypicking selections from The Great Exonumia Bulk Bag (Part 1) In the summer of 2014, I bought a 12-pound sack of various exonumia...
Y'all don't literally have to type the word "once", in red or otherwise. ;) I merely was asking everyone to limit themselves to a single reply on...
They are, actually. LOL So you won't have to rub 'em down to make 'em worth more. ;)
"Souvenir of an Invasion": WW1 German trench art on 1904 Belgian 10-centime coin) [IMG] Larger obverse picture Larger reverse picture Host coin:...
I remember these counterstamped cents being quite popular when I started collecting in the mid-1970s. They were advertised in mainstream...
Welcome. @Aethelred and @Deacon Ray ought to like these. I'm vaguely familiar with the types and the history behind these, but only a little bit.
Woohoo! I got lucky, on the very coin I liked! Thanks! I pledged to do my own giveaway if I won a coin in this one, so here goes!
I recently pledged to do my own giveaway* if by some chance I happened to win in @Ajax 's ancient coin drawing. Well, Lo and behold, I did, and...
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Yes, MS70 (or in this case PR70, for a proof) is the very top of the American Sheldon scale of grading used by TPGs (third-party grading...
Most if not all of the ones I've seen appear to be brass. Though I've seen some stained and spotty ones, they mostly seem to stand the tests of...
Very handsome coin. Looks great with that Deep Cameo contrast. I had to look up the Battle of Chesme, which I'd never heard of before.
I couldn't afford the melt/bullion value of a coin like that, let alone its numismatic value. Congratulations on yet another impressive piece,...
That's cool. I can't remember the last time I saw a Monticello $2.
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And you, Joe. Made any more awesome additions?
I can see why you'd think about that, but really, I wouldn't try anything. The scratches really aren't that bad. If it were my coin and they...
Definitely! Far better to have an ancient scratch or two than modern tooling done in a misguided attempt to hide them!
Yes, I use just such a box, and this coin will eventually end up in a slab. Not that I'm a major proponent of slabbing ancients, but I do slab...
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