Looking forward to it! Welcome.
Lovely example and nice design type!
It’s still a big risk, yes. Only buy it if you’ve got a return privilege long enough to allow you to send it off for certification.
Money well spent. Big Bob here just cost me $750 for his surgery. But he’s back to his place in the driveway, much improved now. He’s a former...
Germany, 1927-A. Bremerhaven 3-mark commemorative. I bought this as a raw MS64 at the 2023 FUN show, then walked it over to the NGC booth and...
I would imagine most of the Great Unwashed general public would make the opposite assumption: “Wow, these are from the 1800s. They must be worth...
Germany, “eichbaum” (oak tree) 5-marks, 1927- A. [ATTACH]
Germany or 1913, next. German States (Saxony) silver 3 mark proof, Battle of Leipzig centennial commemorative, 1913-E [ATTACH] Obverse: the...
Medieval Croatia (Ragusa): silver grosso portraying St. Blasius and Christ, ca. 1372-1438 [ATTACH] Obverse: S BLASIVS RAGVSII, Saint Blasius...
I've had a lot of British coins come and go over the years. Here are my present holdings. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]...
Very historically interesting, if crude, coins. This much more common penny from about a century and a half later is my first (and presently...
(Used to be mine) Hadrian sestertius, Aequitas. Ex-Boston Museum of Fine Arts. [IMG] (Presently mine) Hadrian sestertius, Felicitas. I...
In a fire, maybe? Don't know. Fascinating find, though. Any day you find Roman silver has be a good day!
It has some redeeming features. On the positive side, it's already slabbed (which might not matter to a lot of collectors, but that's a plus for...
Both rough, but pretty amazing finds for a dumpster dive! Who in their right mind would throw away 100+-year-old coins, I wonder?
Nice grab- and nicely presented.
An obvious "magician's coin".
I'll move us back to 1753, if that isn't premature. Belgium (Liège): silver 2-escalin of Prince-Bishop Johann Theodor of Bavaria, 1753 [IMG]...
Each state had its own Statehood quarter design. The type set means you just collect one quarter from each state, and don't worry about which...
PS- an ultrasonic cleaner might also work. I don't know. We used to use them in the jewelry store where I once worked, but I never tried one on...
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