Nifty coin, congrats! No hippos in my collection, alas, but I can contribute a theme song for this thread... [MEDIA]
What an interesting collecting theme. Agree with other comments in that this would be a great long term project. I'd love to see your steel cent...
FWIW, several of these are listed among the 50 or so pages of private medals and the like in the 2012 CNORP volume covering Popes Paul and John...
As mentioned, the medals commemorate the 1975 Holy or Jubilee year. Jubilee Years are actually mentioned in the old testament, but were first...
Happy New Year! Saturday I received my last Christmas gift which also seems to have been my last acquisition for 2017. This is an exciting piece...
Another excellent addition and write up Joe. Interesting tie to Alex VIII. Thanks for sharing.
If you google "Maundy Money" you'll get a good selection of articles, including a nice summary by the BRM picturing a more recent issue of QE 2,...
The coins are distributed on Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday (and a few days before Easter Sunday). The date commemorates Jesus...
Pius X I think (can't quite make out the obverse legend on small pic). Reverse is posted upside down but has Madonna and child. May have had a...
Upper right is the treasury serial number and was numbered/incremented across all banks for a given denomination sheet format. The lower left is...
I picked a couple of these from ebay recently. I'm assuming Budd and Sons placed loans/debt with eastern investors. Do you/does anyone have any...
Congrats! That 5 is pretty tough to locate and overall quite an accomplishment to manage to get all of the varieties in nice condition. Agree...
Here's an example on ebay:...
Nice addition. Congrats!
Privately produced medal (ie not issued by the Vatican but a private and probably local entity) made for the Pope's 1990 visit to Mexico. Could...
Missouri 4178: Any $20 1882 DB Interested in $10 1902 DB and PBs with the bank serial in the 5xx,xxx range 170 any $100 and 02DB $50 with serial...
The last few Vatican medals have omitted the pope's image, substituting his coat of arms. To me this seemed to be a significant departure from the...
A truly nice guy. I knew him only from the ACSG and STL area shows, but the comments on his obit shows he had a much larger and more important...
They're significant. Think of it. This pair is a record of the point where the signatures chanced. Not exactly. The BEP ran different plates...
If I understand correctly, what you're describing is a changeover pair (and not just individual notes) which is not especially common altho the...
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