I have my avatar coin, which I got from Nick at Pegasi at a summer FUN show. It is a bit of a mutt having been scratched during cleaning and the...
I'm interested. I like the coin and the provenance. :-) John
The problem with being second-highest is you really don't know how high the top bidder was willing to go. For all we know they were prepared to go...
It is like science fiction technology when it works so seamlessly.
You don't need to create an image file to translate it. Google the phrase "Google lens" and you will see what I mean.
It's a quacking beauty.
Great score, I am happy for you for getting it! :-) John
When an auction house is looking up a coin in one of the standard references and it says "rare", then they put it in their auction listing. That...
You would expect the two pieces would line up perfectly together. There must have been internal stress in the metal caused by striking. Once the...
I think it looks like a bird of some kind. That is a nice looking lot for uncleaned coins. Should be fun to figure them out. John
Search this board for horn silver for ideas of how to clean it.
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Wow, Barry, talk about encyclopedic knowledge. :-) John
Donkey / grapes from Mende?
Robert, You are totally underestimating yourself. You are one of the most entertaining and engaging people I've ever read online. I love it when...
Wow, that is an incredible coin in an incredible state of preservation. I would make sure you hang on to that one! Don't use it as Dane geld to...
I would have been happy to pay that for such a well-preserved and finely styled coin. Price at auctions can be so random that I don't think it...
The half letters are what Barry has been referring to.
Eriin, Glad to hear you are doing ok! I am happy the coin ended up in your collection. John
Really enjoy learning about medieval coins even though I have relatively few. Medieval wildwinds sounds like a winner. If it takes 10 years who...
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