It looks like a pleasing, original example to me, and I reckon I'd call it XF40.
I will say that it is is semi-interesting damage. I'm not sure what caused it, or why. And we will likely never know.
Penny, not "pennie", and yes, just big time damage. Looks like Lincoln got shot at more than once, but most of 'em missed.
All perfectly straight on the rolls. All with headlines, not obscure fine print. Yeesh. [IMG]
Wow.
The little "O" rings are annulets. They're often seen in the legends of medieval coins. I'm not sure what that "8"-looking device is. Oh- wait-...
France (Metz, Free Imperial City): silver gros, civic issue, ca. 1406-1588 [IMG] Obverse: Cross with stars in angles. Reverse: Saint Stephen,...
I recognize the second and third coins as Armenian, but I don't recognize the first, cow-head one at the top. That is very cool looking. They...
Yeah, they're a mess. Zinc, while it has its industrial uses, is a trashy metal for coinage (hence my prior jab at the Nazis for using it...
Zinc coinage was another WW2 German atrocity in the occupied countries. I don't think you can do much with them. Perhaps a soak in mineral oil...
Awesome. I love the light CircCam contrast. Usually I'd have gone for yours first because of the toning, but I liked the strike on my example...
Excellent point. Might as well do all of the above, while we're daydreaming. Medals. Old Master paintings. Sestertii and aureii. All kept...
If reposts were a crime, I'd have been banished and chained to a galley oar long ago! Ay, Chihuahua. Be still my beating heart.
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Nice- which one did you get?
That painting absolutely hypnotizes me. If I were a kazillionaire, I would collect Old Master paintings as well as gold aureii. [IMG]
Sounds like fun.
That's some impressive work. Do you sell them at Renaissance fairs and such? You probably could.
Same seller I bought mine from has a nearly identical example for the same price, as of this post. Which worked out to just a smidgen below a...
I did my first detecting in Old Town Fernandina!
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