Lions, continued. Or if you like, archaic coins with incuse punch reverses. [IMG]
Nice bulk box find! I love the type. Well done, sir! I used to live there (East Africa- Tanzania in my case), and that's my paternal...
Wow- sunk four pages back, and dormant almost a month? Tsk, tsk. We'll have to do something about that. Here, let's do an easy and popular...
Tarsos, Cilicia, c. 164 - 37 B.C. [IMG]
That's great! This Akragas hemidrachm has a crab, a sea monster (ketos), and a fish (being chomped by the ketos). [IMG] Capricorns on a...
That is indeed pretty interesting. And with all that lead in their food and water and the atmosphere, I suppose it's small wonder they lived in...
Ouch.
Just say no to drugs. And stupidity. :banghead::rolleyes:
I've reported three of his listings. They all appear to be fakes- none match the cert page images at PCGS. Hopefully eBay will ban him. He'll...
Hope you've reported it to PCGS and eBay. Considering that's a pop 1 coin, and the coin from that cert number looks like this, I'd say yep, it's...
Well, it's not an ancient, but it was part of my last love token collection. I think you'll see how it's topical here. ;) "Penny-farthing Pedal...
I've sent Andres' Dutch BP replicas on to @Aethelred, since we're about to be doing home renovations at my place and all of my worldly goods will...
Neato! @dougsmit posted one here. When you mentioned the Stearns Bicycle connection, I knew I had read about that here somewhere before.
Yes, there is certainly nothing wrong with that, when the damage was already done a century or more before. These coins can still be appealing,...
Here's a 1798 Colombian escudo I used to have on my onetime trademark "Holey Gold Hat". I never lamented the holes so much with that particular...
What fascinating places to visit. Thanks for sharing the photos.
Could be ... could be! But considering I just learned of the existence of folded flans this very afternoon, you'd best not listen to me. ;)...
PS- these have a handsome design, so it's not surprising you like it. You asked for advice. I advise you use a pair of pliers to pinch all those...
And here's the NGC/Krause priceguide listing. German (and Prussian) coins struck in Berlin usually bore an "A" mintmark, but not in the case of...
I totally agree, though I still haven't owned an Athenian one yet. :) [IMG] [IMG]
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