I don't remember what I sold them for now- not much- perhaps in the upper $10s to low $20s for each lot. But didn't have much invested in them,...
Crazy that my oldest coin find was here in GA, not England, and that it was an "eyeball" find made while doing a cursory site walk. As mentioned,...
Your attribution of "Delhi Sultanate" tells me you're already way, way ahead of me on material like this. ;) I've always thought these were neat...
BTW, experts, if you can confirm and/or correct my Arcadius attribution and the approximate dating on this piece, please do. It was something of...
This article was originally written for a general audience rather than a specialized numismatic one. ~RWS/"LM" DIGGER'S DIARY: THE ARCADIUS...
PS- @01mikep (and anyone else who's a "digger")- I suggested to Peter that a metal detecting (actually, I prefer "Treasure Hunting") forum would...
I envy your being able to detect in Europe! That week in England was my one and only opportunity to hunt in the Old World, and was the...
Assuming I'm still wearing my default "Holey Hat Avatar" and haven't temporarily switched to something else when you read this, here's the...
I've also found those interesting. I would not have guessed that that Claudius AE was struck under Domitian! (PS- love that portrait and patina...
I'd tend to agree, though not a paper money guy, myself. I think star notes of this era really need to be UNC to be worth any premium over face...
Thanks for the KM numbers, spirityoda. Made 'em easier to look up online. (NGC maintains a Krause database, but it's not the most user-friendly...
This ca. 1300-1310 Long Cross silver penny of Edward I "Longshanks" was the first coin I found on my 2013 metal detecting trip to England. The...
Yep. Older tourist fakes, then. Confirms my earlier suspicion that, while fake, they weren't absolutely modern fakes. I've seen much worse. As...
I tend to agree. What's been done has been done. Best to leave it alone from any further tinkering. Though perhaps not fully original, it is...
Yep. Eadweard Muybridge. What a "weard" name that fella had, huh?
I don't recall any particularly noticeable striations on any of my coins, but I've always liked that "dragon boat" design on those 5-won pieces,...
I'd put both of those in the upper VF range; perhaps borderline XF. Handsome pieces. The 50-centime was likely cleaned at one point, but is...
I used to have a holed example on my old "Holey Coin Vest", as it happens. Ain't a whole lot of coin left when somebody put a bigger hole in one...
Yay!
Digging old coins like this and being the first to see and hold them in centuries is indeed a real rush, as I can personally attest.
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