Well, I can't comment on your coin - perhaps it's circulated and/or damaged? What I see from the pictured hoard is a group of basically...
Gold is non-reactive for all practical purposes. Gold coins that have been sitting at the bottom of the sea in a shipwreck for hundreds of years...
I bought a few of these 1996 Austrian 50 Shilling on eBay. As a collector of ancient and medieval coins, I like old iconography and heraldry on...
In addition to old coins I also collect old books. Recently I acquired the second edition of Eugene Ziebler's Heraldry in America, published in...
Well then it was indeed money well spent! :D
It's a beautiful and very special coin to be sure. Reading over your first post detailing the birth of Lucilla in relationship to the coin...
@roman99 See our recent thread elucidating the Paeonian tetradrachms.. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-ct-collaboration-paeonians-celts.392714/
Beautiful stuff! You're a coin-buying machine.
Very nice! The contrast between the Laodicea and Rome mints is quite dramatic.
That's a gorgeous example of the type. Money well spent!
It was the People's Republic of Massachusetts, but that was a decade ago. Apparently someone had set themselves alight whilst pumping their own...
The psychology has to do with submission to authority. When we don't know the grade, we get to be the authority. When we know the grade, the...
I was 8 years old when they came out and I remember going to the bank with my grandmother and getting a handful. As far as spending goes, they...
Man, that mule wins the prize. Let me get this straight: so they sliced up two coins, welded them together, gold plated the Frankenstein monster,...
Great idea for a thread. Do you commemorative collectors consider these 1996 Atlanta Olympics 50-cent and pin sets cheesy? I kind of like them....
Verdi-Care won't do a thing to remove mineral deposits. You could try shaving them down with a dremel tool, but you need a very steady hand not to...
Beautiful and important medals! Thank you for posting them.
Very fun and educational post! Venus was my guess for first place, before I saw the list. Not surprising. All you need is looove....
Safe travels and have a fun show. I've attended numerous small shows where the dealers had little to no ancient coins, but I still had fun and...
The Sotheby's catalog describes the busts on coins 73-78 as the king; 79, 80, 82, and 83 simply as "laureate head"; and 81, 84ff as Apollo. Your...
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