At one show, an indulgent dealer gave me the opportunity to hold a raw AU octagonal in my hot little hand, and feel the heft of the thing. It was...
Oh, owls are the BEST. I don't have many owl coins (and still haven't acquired an Athenian "Owl" tetradrachm because my taste in those outruns my...
WOW. Any Roman gold is "wow" for me, but that one happens to have a crazy-cool reverse design, too!
For World coins overall, it's really hard to say. There's so much to choose from. For US coins, it's the Pan-Pac octagonal $50, hands down....
This just arrived from an eBay seller in Israel. Cost me a mere fourteen bucks, even after overseas shipping. 1548 Poland/Lithuania...
For some undefinable reason, I love those Bolivian coins like the one in the OP. That one looks to have some killer luster, too!
PS- since we're resurrecting oldies-but-goodies, I shall re-share MY EID MAR. It appears to have been overstruck on a rather broad flan of some...
Yes, I saw that. Don't drop it, lassie... DON'T DROP IT!!!
Nice pix. I suppose I can go along with the strikethrough theory, but I can also see why you'd question the 70-grade on what does appear to be a...
If it's a fake, it's a pretty good one. Deceptive enough to fool me, anyway. Not your blatant Chinese counterfeit or "tourist fake" at any rate....
Yes, based on my past experience with Spink, their grading standards in the book are vague at best (though to be fair, if you were looking to...
This was "gold plated" and is quite respectable... and valuable. ;) Wasn't hawked on TV, though, and has had a couple of centuries to become...
Bet if you leave 'em in that corrugated cardboard for any length of time, you could create some nice "album" toning... ;)
Indeed!
Yes- forgot to say, those old time banks are cool.
I don't necessarily disagree, if you mean "look at" as in "shop for" (after all, everyone should collect within his or her means)... but I'm...
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