Those are lovely examples! The Manville article to which you can link through numista (above) looks helpful. For more on the Soho Mint, which also...
I include this in my US Colonial collection, since coins like this certainly circulated then (and are now even included in the Red Book). [ATTACH]
Another find off Israel coast:...
Nice to see the lulav and etrogs, since this week is the festival of Sukkot!
Does the Spanish Pillar Dollar (8 reales) count? I have this one as part of my [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Colonial/Pre-Federal collection.
A few years ago I collected one of each date.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Philadelphia coin dealer William Idler did a copy of a Maryland piece and made it into a store card. The Maryland originals are quite expensive,...
Half cents are wonderful. There is a Facebook group that welcomes new members: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2383428078580233 I have managed to...
For my expanding collection representing significant moments in Jewish history, I just acquired this Russian 5 kopeck of 1791. Catherine the...
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[ATTACH] [ATTACH] ITALY. Venice. Mocenigo, ND. Andrea Gritti (1523-39). NGC EF-45. Just after the establishment in Venice of the first Ghetto...
Thank you for taking this on!
[ATTACH] Ptolemy II was in charge at the time of the translation of the Torah into Greek, the Septuagint. According to some versions of history,...
The great Enlightenment figure Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was celebrated by the Weimar Republic on the 200th anniversary of his birth.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] This tiny hammered silver from Hungary (Bela IV 1235-1270) is only 9mm diameter, and so light that it is hard to imagine that coins like...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] As described on p. 284 of James Conder’s original list (1798): Yorkshire (halfpenny size) 29. O. A West View of...
I am interested in the coins that circulated in colonial America, and legally in the US until 1857. Here is my Dutch Lion Daalder from...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Some in the Angolan province of Cabinda seek independence. Their government in exile has issued various "coins", mostly...
The aftermath also included what are remembered in Jewish history as the Hadrianic Persecutions, including the martyrdom of major rabbis of that...
Retired Rabbi. Like so many others, started young, long break, came back a few years ago. US types, early copper, Colonial & Pre-Federal,...
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