Great pic. Yesterday there was a pretty red cardinal eating the cat food we put out for the Driveway Kitties. (We put it on top of the trash cans...
Is it, or were the flat areas missing detail merely caused by the counterstamping somehow?
In the case of Julius Caesar there is, and some would argue that it’s the Holy Grail of ancient coin collecting. [ATTACH]
Oh, I ain’t gonna give ‘em away one at a time. They’ll go in batches of ten or twelve. With all different designs/counterstamps, as long as...
I took Ladymarcovan out metal detecting once, when we were first dating. Now I realize she was probably bored stiff (not her thing). But she...
I’ll tell you how it works. You send them $995 and hope you get something worth a lot more than that. Maybe you will, and maybe you won’t. Way...
Not really. Especially not those particular ones. Not worth the expense. For the reasons stated above.
What difference does it make? Everyone knows true hardcore coin geeks are completely ineligible to have romantic partners! :p But yeah… that’s a...
Yes, I’d be inclined to suspect a planchet flaw rather than any kind of anomaly with the dies. Assuming that’s even the case, and it’s not just...
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Hmm. Maybe he should make you the distributor! ;) Then you’d be able to cherrypick the source, right? Tell ya what, though: PM or text me the...
So I got an unexpected small Flat Rate Priority box in the mail today. It was rather heavy. Inside, the shipper had done an admirable packaging...
Thanks for the update! Helps us keep track, and me, to update the round summary in the intro.
Grandfather. My Dad was born in ‘38, so he was just a kid during the war. Old enough to still have stories about it, though.
I also have a 1942 WW2 family memory, as it happens. I keep my grandfather’s WW2 deployment medal with my collection. He was Dr. Logan Robertson...
Hopefully nobody will object if I also add a bonus entry for @Nyatii here as well. (OK, I’ll stop putting my finger on the scales, now.)
I’m going to throw in an extra bonus entry for @EdGs here. That was a cool post.
Thanks for the update.
I’ve even found a Roman coin here in the US!
Wow. What a piece of history. I have a Julian II siliqua that was found in the East Harptree Hoard. That was unearthed in 1887, though, so long...
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