No expert on ancient gold, but I do know a little about ancient Greek script. It is possible the inscription is not EV but epsilon upsilon. We...
I cringed little when I read that. I'm a retired teacher. Several years ago one of my students showed me a "counterfeit" quarter he had received...
Total value: $1.25.
Very nice!
I find it interesting that the smaller disc exactly competes with the British sovereign in content, the larger is exactly 4 sovereigns.
I don't think I would ever have noticed it unless it were first in a flip. How did you discover it?
A little nostalgia--that's about the time I started collecting coins.
Again, note the marks are depressions with a little raised metal on the rim. They are also similar to other marks scattered around the coin....
Welcome to coin talk. There are lots of guides to grading. The Red Book, as mentioned above, is good. You can go online to...
They don't appear to be selling the crosses cut out of the cents. They may be selling that for scrap, which might be illegal because of rules...
Welcome to Coin Talk. I'm afraid your coin is just damaged, having been gouged. The D mint mark is shows normal wear. The reason error coins...
LON, London mint (Crispus, son of Constantine I, AD 323-324)[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Certainly does not look natural. Either fake or abused. If abused, it was originally uncirculated, so why would anyone do that to it? Perhaps...
I don't believe it is the NGC certified coin, which is flawless. The above coin seems to have dings before the L and after the B in PLURIBUS. But...
Did you try rolling them on their edges on a flat surface? Although they don't look it, it may be that they are just ever so slightly out of...
This may not quite fit the original criteria because there were a number of coins issued between 1808 and 1812. The Kingdom of Westphalia was set...
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Don't bid too much. It looks like there is damage on the back, perhaps ex-jewelry.
Not a shipwreck coin, this is the Bluenose, which wrecked and sank in 1946.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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