Nice quarter! The year 1983 must have been big for off-center quarters. I seem to remember a similar post a few months ago with a 1983 quarter....
Thanks! I'll give it a try.
I bought this out of a batch of loose ancients at a local coin show several years ago. I think it is Ptolemy II or III, but I cannot tell for...
I looked at the listing on eBay, then looked at his feedback, as far as the first negative. Most of his sales were books rather than coins, and...
In my amateur opinion, both ideas are correct. There definitely is a column. Consider both the base and top of the column. But there is also...
I am no expert, closer to a novice in this area. But it appears the obverse is clearly a "poor man's doubled die," and not a very strong one, and...
Thanks! I enjoyed reading that!
Just think, if the mint had gone with this design, there never would have been any FS designation or arguments over whether it was or wasn't FS.
Entry post. 1 2 4 5 7 4 3. Thanks for the giveaway! This is not a great treasure, but it is my most recent purchase. Got it for 20 cents in a...
Thanks for the information! Very interesting, especially the reaction of the Italian mint officials.
Considering how often claimants to the throne met untimely deaths, all them were "sticking their necks out" to declare themselves emperors. Maybe...
What is this? I haven't been to Europe since 2002, and we find very few Euro coins here in the Deep South. (Once while bicycling I found a few...
I collect because I love history, and there is a lot of it in US Fractional Currency. Plus, it is affordable. Unless you are into specimen...
Entry Post. Super prizes! Thanks. My order: 3 4 6 1 2 5 I find this note interesting. The portrait is of Spencer M. Clark, Superintendent of...
The Declaration of Independence is in terribly shape. I have 18th Century parchments and Continental Currency (paper, of course) made or signed...
I've had plenty like this. I find them along the road when I ride my bicycle. When they are too deformed to use as money, sometimes I will...
It's still a nice example, and I'd put it in a 2x2 and keep it.
I'm sure you meant a clear flip. Never, ever put any coin in a vinyl holder of any sort unless you want to permanently damage the coin. I...
In weighing a coin like that, how much would you allow for the hole? There appears to be metal missing, not just pushed aside.
Hope you find an answer!
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