Spectacular coins, both of them!
Environmentally damaged coins such as this appear on this site with remarkable regularity.
Get a refund and use the money to buy a book on punctuation.
A beat up, corrroded coin--that is all
The best advice is not to take advice from strangers on the internet.
Not a coin--a medal. You already know just about all there is to know about it.
The 195,000 years is not unaccounted for--read some anthropology! An do not take silly TV shows for history--even the people that film them do...
In the nineteenth century collectors of crowns were considered the elite of foreign coin collectors. Later the specialty sadly declined. I...
The coin was struck at the Lima mint, not Mexico city--that is why the reverse legend is a little different. I see no reason to suspect this coin...
Remember you have money tied up in such a note that could be earning bank interest every year. To hope for any profit you would have to have the...
Style is off. Probably an Indian imitation contemporary with the original.
May they die still owning it! In addition to practices by auction houses some regard as dubious, there are many practices by bidders that are...
In all honesty, I cannot imagine anyone paying a premium for these.
I think this coin has been holed and then well plugged--that explains the lack of the C after 10 and the parallel disturbance in the obverse field.
To say anything, we would need weights for each coin and good pictures combining the obverse and reverse. What we have now is a mass of...
I have seen similar crud on fakes, designed to hide short comings in style--and the style of the cock is quite bad. I think this is a modern fake.
Chop marks also appear on other coins--British trade dollars, French trade dollars, old Spanish pillar dollars, Spanish bust dollars, etc. It...
Certainly just damage.
I collect two very narrow areas, but occasionally I too wander away and get something else. I always tell myself that the new buy is trading...
Actually, it is a modern cast of a Renaissance fantasy of a Roman medallion--three removes from real.
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