Featured What is a "CircCam", you ask? Look and see! And post yours!

You rang? Yes, have been on hiatus again, and that is likely to continue for the remainder of the month, but I intend to be back in time to do the monthly giveaway drawing and such.

 

Yes, that's one of my "babies". I like to switch up avatars now and again, though I always revert to my default one with the Holey Coin Hat eventually.

Greece (Spartans in Taras, Calabria, Italy): silver drachm; Athena and owl, ca. 302-281 BC

NGC XF; Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5.

 

Here is a 461-year-old CircCam.

It is a Lithuania half-groschen struck in 1558, under the reign of Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, and featuring the charging knight symbol of Lithuania with a nice heraldic eagle on the other side.

I love this type. They're neat early-dated coins with a cool design, silver, and they're not terribly expensive, either. Nor are they tiny, like the Hungarian denars of the same era (which are the other early-dated Renaissance coin type that offers the most "bang for the buck").




I have a PCGS MS63 1550 example in my "Eclectic Box" collection.

Cool, huh?

Y'know what's even more cool?

This one could become yours if you win it in the February giveaway drawing!

 

Nice!

 

Just sold a very large hunk of my collection, including some of my best coins, in order to get some money for bills.

But the sales went better than expected, so I've bought some new stuff to fill some of the void created by recent sales.

This one is coming my way. First coin I ever bought from David Lawrence (DLRC).

 

Light CircCam contrast here.

 

These two British errors are certainly CircCams, particularly the Charles II crown. That's what made me buy it. The error designation was just an interesting bonus.







Great Britain: silver South Seas Company sixpence of George I; double-struck mint error (2nd strike 25% off-center)