Nice smooth brown surfaces? Who cares about a little wear if they look like that? They look great.
(not-so) Secret Santa greedily contemplated keeping that tricolored Faeroe Islands piece for himself, but finally relented and turned loose of it....
Roman Egypt: billon tetradrachm of Hadrian, Year 15 (130-131 AD); Hadrian receiving corn ears from Alexandria [IMG] Obverse: AVT KAI TPAI AΔPIA...
I transcribed part of the description from the Wildwinds listing, since the seller's listing was in German and had some terms and abbreviations...
Luck! Good luck! Expanding your horizons is always a good thing!
Your pictures are adequate- decent, even- though the first two could stand to have the extra black space at top and bottom cropped. Sorry, but...
Now I have an Alexandrian tetradrachm, finally, and another ancient to add to my tiny sampling of them in the Eclectic Box. It's also nice to...
[MEDIA] I wore this album out in the late '80s. :headphone: *
It's definitely damaged. Now the real question is whether it's a 1946-64 silver coin or a 1965-later clad. @Reggb- what does the edge look like?...
No, you're thinking of this one.
It could have been, though maybe those holes are a bit widely spaced. Dunno. But now you could put a hole at the top part of the PCGS slab, put...
Unfortunately you can't hear that one buzz. Only their background music. The whole "buzzer" thing reminds me of the aboriginal Australian...
I completely understand. One must seize any excuse at all to repost one's favorites. ;) And that one's awesome. I have a similar brockage still...
Merged the duplicate threads. We lost the poll in the process, but it didn't make any sense anyway.
@coin_nut - regarding your top coin there- While I was bookmarking stuff for Secret Saturnalia (the Ancients Forum's Secret Santa exchange), I...
I too have had raw Gem BU examples in the past (including one that might've been at least MS66-67 quality if slabbed), but when I was able...
PCGS MS65. Another relatively common, but beautiful, coin. This was my last 2018 newp. [ATTACH]
Imagine the look you would get if you went up to the average 21st century child, asked him to put down the digital device in his hands, and play...
Yes, but buttons that big were the fashion in the late 1700s. By the mid-1800s, they had gone out of fashion. So I suspect this coin was indeed...
You'll know soon enough. He ain't the kind to leave you hangin'.
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