Here's a 1792 A (Paris Mint) Ecu de six livres with Louis XVI bust/ `Angel' rev. These coins were issued for both 1792 and 1793 by various mints...
ah well, at least you now know more about the coin type than you ever imagined you would, so you have come out of it with something more than you...
That condition is about as good as you will find these particular denomination coins in (ditto its smaller brother the 15 sols). They are usually...
These Sassanian silver coins are a study all to themselves. Neat coin. Ian
ditto what he said. end price is way ott (IMHO). maybe if it hadn't been cleaned....nah! still way ott.
Firstly, the Belgian coin is silver and worth at least $5 for it's silver content. `Holed' is accurate technically as a descriptor, but that hole...
oooh. THAT is not an easy one to answer. It's a bitt like asking `how long is a piece of string?' Some coins are made with holes in them, and...
:D another favourite altered quote of mine is `while there's beer, there's hope'. ;) Ian
I did one year are school with latin. Hated every moment of it. Of course, now (as with many things) I wish I had studied it a little more...
Church and state and wars in the Holy Land. Power politics at its worst. What an unholy tangle of machinations and webs of intrigue!! Great eh?...
I meant to add that I once saw a slabbed US trade dollar that had a chop mark on either side. If these marks hadn't been there it would most...
Where I live I don't get to see many 2 reales pieces in the first place. I can honestly say that (apart from in books) I have only once seen a 2...
Good point Andy. My first safeguard is that it was being sold by someone i've had previous dealings with and therefore established some `track'....
Many coins from that time frame have horses prominent on them, so that in itself isn't much of an indication as to their abilities with regards to...
They aren't too difficult, but its a bit like the old Hienz tomato sauce saying. `when at first you shake the bottle, none'll come...and then a...
When you grade counterstamped coinage, it is the quality and condition of the actual counterstamp that is graded. That is, you can have (for...
.....or the one that got away :( This is one of the drawbacks of being a tight fisted Scotsman. i'd been watching a coin for a few days. It was...
A new addition for me. A badly bashed about denier of Foulques V of Anjou. Born 1089, he became Compte D'anjou in 1109 and became King of...
An interesting legend, the source of which is the latin prayer `Benedictiones Mensae' (`Blessings at the Table'). You can now peruse this in...
I'm with you there. That blackness is actually advanced pvc damage. It has been stored in a pvc flip judging from the green that is all too...
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