[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Prussia 1876 5 Marks.
I travelled to Berlin in 1982 by rail. The difference between East and West was stark, kind of like going from black and white to color as in the...
I was up before sunrise this morning, saw there was a conjunction of Venus and Regulus. Beautiful.
I've got the knockoff version: [IMG] NGC encapsulation reads: Celts, Lower Danube, 2nd-1st Centuries BC, AR Tetradrachm (16.87g), types of 'first...
My first 18th century crown size. [IMG][IMG] Netherlands Utrecht 3 Gulden.
Looks like I went 1 for 6 in his latest auction. Syria, Antiochos VIII tet. Love that Mark Antony denarius. [IMG] [IMG]
Indeed, that is why I didn’t bid, looking for a well struck example for my type set. This is kind of the opposite.
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About 50, but that number has been stagnant as I move from US coins toward world coins and ancients.
10. This coin has everything, provenance, strike, nice surfaces.
1 out of 4 here, and bought one post sale.
In his guide book of US Type Coins Q. David Bowers had this to say about type II trimes: "Most are very poorly struck except for the scarce date...
Your eclectic box updates are always a treat. Thanks very much for sharing.
Here in the United States, I think the deterioration in public education, history in particular, makes coins much less interesting to young...
Someone was asking about the authenticity of a 1796 Flowing Hair dollar on Reddit the other day. I feel like some of these counterfeiters aren’t...
The CC mintmark on an 1845 dollar is a little suspect.
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