Excellent coin!
I agree, a nice first Greek. I remember my first, it was a Seleukid bottlecap, Antiochus VIII. I bought it for $15 from an Edward Waddell catalog...
Wear on the high points is a giveaway. I'd say EF.
Wow! Best I've done is a few walking liberty halves and a few silver certificates!
Nice find!
Don't the grading services charge extra for attributing errors and put that service on some different tier?
35. Been collecting world and ancient since I was 6 with some years off when I was in the Navy.
What is "enhanced uncirculated?" Is that somewhere between unc and proof?
I agree, looks like acid, which would explain the uniform removal of metal and thinning of the lettering. Could also have been dropped into a...
Is the edge lettering on these applied before the obverse/reverse strike or is there a segmented collar at work when striking these?
Thanks!
Never thought of a licensing arrangement. If the design isn't patented then they could have made it themselves though. Anyone thought to send an...
I know the colonial coppers typically had a weight somewhere on par with a contemporary British half penny, and would have been familiar to most...
It's an arcade token.
The deer etched coin is probably from Yunnan Province or northern Burma, late 19th century, not a coin, but more like a hobo nickel copying some...
British India, Bombay Presidency, Rupee. AH 1215, RY 46, in the name of Shah Alam II. C-678 (vertical milling), or C-678a (plain edge). Vertical...
I've had the same experience with offers, too. They're trying to make too much on each transaction, that or they paid too much for the coin in the...
May 2015 be as good as 2014!
Nice coin!
I think there's another Dansco knockoff out there, with black covers. If I'm not mistaken Wizard Coin Supply was selling them.
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