Post Your Old Gold !

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  1. charlottedude

    charlottedude Novice Collector

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  3. tmeyer

    tmeyer Au hunter

    :)
    Not sure how old it is but I dug it up from the ground.....
     

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  4. coin_nut

    coin_nut Well-Known Member

    1859 C, I had to look that up, Charlotte Mint, wow! Is the old mint still there? I have visited the mint museum in Dahlonega, GA.
     
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  5. SilverDollar2017

    SilverDollar2017 Morgan dollars

    Yes, the old mint is still there. Website link: https://www.mintmuseum.org/visit/
     
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  6. charlottedude

    charlottedude Novice Collector

    Last year & denomination of issue before shutting her production doors for good:

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  7. Santinidollar

    Santinidollar Supporter! Supporter

    This arrived today from Mike at ToughCoins.

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  8. Santinidollar

    Santinidollar Supporter! Supporter

    Coin show acquisition

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  9. Pickin and Grinin

    Pickin and Grinin Well-Known Member

    Here is a chunk of Gold I bought last Christmas, for my collection,
    it was tested at 22-24 kt. 2.3 grams
    Not sure how Gold could get much older.:):D IMG_0001.JPG IMG_0002.JPG
     
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  10. charlottedude

    charlottedude Novice Collector

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  11. Nathan401

    Nathan401 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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  12. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Sicily (Norman Kings): gold tari of Guglielmo I ("William the Bad"), ca. 1154-1166 AD
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    Though I could have pursued rounder examples with better strikes and flans, this one "spoke" to me, and I had to have it. And I'm going to leave most if not all of the dirt on it when I send it off to PCGS. (Might give it a very light brushing with a soft brush, at most.)

    This is an interesting cross-cultural coin with both Islamic (Kufic) inscriptions and Christian iconography. The collision of these cultures during the Crusades produced some interesting hybrids like this, with Christian rulers imitating Islamic coinage. (In this era, the Muslims were often the more technologically advanced culture.)
     
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  13. jwitten

    jwitten Well-Known Member

    Now THAT is dirty old gold!
     
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  14. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Literally! But "dirty in all the right ways", in my humble opinion. :)
     
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  15. willieboyd2

    willieboyd2 First Class Poster

    LM, Congratulations on your Islamic-Christian gold coin.

    In AD 1250 Pope Innocent IV (AD 1243-1254) ordered Crusaders to stop making gold coins with Islamic legends which they had been doing for a long time.

    Some stopped but some kept on doing it.

    :)
     
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  16. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Thanks, WB2!

    Say, since you're here, why not repost that Antoninus Plus aureus? :)
     
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  17. Garlicus

    Garlicus Debt is dumb, cash is king.

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    Lol
     
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  18. Santinidollar

    Santinidollar Supporter! Supporter

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  19. Santinidollar

    Santinidollar Supporter! Supporter

    Arrived today from a Stack’s Bowers auction last week.:woot:

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  20. green18

    green18 Unknown member Sweet on Commemorative Coins Supporter

    Freakin' devil........ya beat me to it, you incorrigible fellow......... devil.gif

    And what? Over 20 pages? I missed the chance to reign havoc. Glad you did so brother. And with keeping to the naughty side.........:)
     
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  21. Nathan401

    Nathan401 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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