Did you remove it from the holder, or are those pre-slab photos? I looked up your TrueView. That's a lovely Peace dollar, regardless of the...
Oh, yeah. Nice coin. Even if the color isn't original, it's pretty, and that's a nice coin to have, regardless.
I want that for @BuffaloHunter, too, if he wants it. Count this as an extra entry.
Update: this giveaway is now CLOSED. The winner was announced here. This is Round 12 of my Giveaway #78. In 24 hours or so, there will be a...
So now we come to our final round in this contest... ROUND 12. The prize for this round is a... Phoenicia (Arados): bronze Æ17, ca. 242-166 BC;...
So now it's time for the drawing for... Round 11 (the Roman provincial coin of Antioch on Orontes, 138-161 AD). Our lucky number was... 380....
You're making me want one.
OK, let me go to my desk where I’ve got a proper keyboard and mouse, and we’ll fire up the random number generator and see who gets that...
Thanks for the update!
Coins are in hand now, and look great, of course. They’re in little plastic capsules.
Nice earthen patina on that one! There’s just one ancient left in this contest after this one. We’ll go back into the BC era for that (Round...
It is now, since the UK went to a decimal system in 1970, but before that, as @daveydempsey mentioned, they were on the old non-decimal Sterling...
I second the recommendation of this book as a good general reference for beginners. It helped me when I was a novice 15 years ago. It is also...
Silver, then. Well, now that IS interesting, indeed!
There were a lot of fake George III "Spade" guineas struck in brass as 19th century gaming tokens, but this looks like somewhat better work than...
1. It's gold, so it's beautiful. 2. It's rare gold, so it's beautiful. 3. The design isn't awful, and commemorates a historic event, so yeah......
THIS Contest is now CLOSED. The winners were announced in the round summary at the bottom of this first post. LordM Giveaway #80 (eight...
I always liked these types as some of the few obtainable coins of Edward VIII's short reign. Nice toning on that East Africa 10c, BTW.
East Africa must have been under the homeland pounds/shillings/pence system while West Africa had decimal currency, I guess. "Cent" is a decimal...
Update: this giveaway is now CLOSED. The winner was announced here. This is Round 11 of my Giveaway #78. In 24 hours or so, there will be a...
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