From what I understand it was fairly common in the latter part of the 19th century, after coin collecting had caught on, to fill in holes of coins...
Anybody else collect holed/pierced coins? I'm building a wacky set of holed U.S. type coins that I can obtain for under $10. I've gotten just...
The price of a coin is whatever it sells for, which can be significantly vary depending on where it sells, from whom, and to whom. This is a...
Funny. MS-69 "for the type." The above plugged gem is the ugliest Bust dollar I've ever seen, which is why I had to have it. :) Want to guess...
That's a beautiful coin. The coloration is particularly nice. The jewelry mounting grooves add visual interest -- I agree.
Sinner! May the gods of numismatics strike you down and make you into a Susan B. Anthony dollar. Strike that, a Eunice Shriver Special Olympics...
I just saw this set. To each his own. But holing coins yourself is cheating. Seriously. No coin purist would damage a coin this way just to say,...
Hi, GDJMSP. This is just a fun little set. I may create a little display to hang on a wall here where I'd put nails through the holes in these...
Just Carl: There are a number of ways you can tell if a coin has been holed just to create a holed coin. Victor mentioned one -- the freshness of...
Anybody here collect holed coins? They're more technically referred to as pierced coins to distinguish them from coins that were minted with a...
Here's one, a 96th stater from Miletos, a coin weighing all of 0.13g and measuring all of 5mm in diameter: [IMG] That's a roaring lion on...
Warrent Esty wrote a short article for SAN about this 21 years ago, an article titled "Attribution Errors Found in Books" for its Spring 1984...
More so here than there, that is, misinformation is more prevalent online than off. There's always been misinformation in print -- books,...
Both services have been around for years, and both are truly excellent, among if not the single best online resources about ancient coins,...
This is true, of course. Reading critically, paying attention to information validity, is more important on the Internet than in print because the...
There's an old maxim in numismatics, "Buy the book before you buy the coin," but this no longer applies in the age of the Internet. There's lots...
OK. That makes more sense. In your post you just said "In ancient times and all the way up until the modern age - it wasn't the criminal element...
I agree that counterfeit coins can be very collectible. Don't pay any attention to the people who try to scare you away from this by citing laws...
You need to either upload a picture or, not quite as useful, better describe this coin on order to have it attributed. Look at the reverse. Is the...
Yes. This is true, and it's not stretching things at all. Michael, it's again not clear what it is you're arguing or why. Most ancient coins as...
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