Many auctioneers accept only one cut bid per bidder. You very well may have won the lot 16K. Try not to lose too much sleep over it! There will...
Your token is Rulau HT 16 (or 16A, if the edge is reeded). It was struck by the Scovill Manufacturing Co of Waterbury, CT, from dies engraved by...
Hard Times tokens are neat. I've been studying them extensively in the past several months, as my home town was the location of a major mint for...
The weight is really a dead give away. 7 missing grams is far too much to explain away by clipping, porosity, or loose mint tolerances, even if...
Count me in! I live in Lancaster, too.
I don't trust NGC too much either, but its absurd to assume Krause is more reliable! There is so much missing from those books.
I think something got lost in translation. I assume he read that they were all imitations, or something of the like.
A quarto of Ferdinand VII from the Philippines
No one is exactly certain who the figure on the obverse represents. "Standing Caliph" is merely the popular description of the type. This is a...
You can't tell the difference because they're the same. Mairat reattributes them from Lyon to Trier.
None of the three attributed to Cologne cite Mairat. :)
The attributions on Wildwinds are generally only as good as those contributing them. I would not trust a random ebay seller to properly identify...
Remember when we were talking about "nice" coins, and I couldn't really describe them? You're starting to figure it out. A few notes on your...
Nothing wrong with it. If anything, I'd say its in kind of a low grade. I've seen many much nicer.
Electrum and the Invention of Coinage does feature a number of important examples that are not published elsewhere, but many of the conclusions...
First off, you have the obverse and reverse switched. The obverse begins with the bismillah, the name of God - a standardized formula on almost...
The titles match: http://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=63238
Yes, it should be a dinar of Rukn al-Din Barkiyaruq, AH 468-498 / AD 1093-1105. The date and mint name appear in the outer inscription. Album...
This article should be helpful: https://www.academia.edu/352435/The_Electrum_Coinage_of_Samos_in_the_Light_of_a_Recent_Hoard
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