A 1971 Very or Extremely Fine Ore in my collection. The king is Frederick IX, but shows an R. Interesting.

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Silver 4 pence from the year of the Glorious Revolution – the first and last time in British history that a King and a Queen reigned jointly with Parliament On the other side are the heads of William of Orange and Queen Mary. MAG.BR.FR.ET.HIB.REX ET REGINA 1689 Which I think …

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Image from an article in the Virginia Numismatist by Bill Eckberg titled The Marshall House Token and the Civil War. Image provided by Bill Eckberg

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Silver 3 pence from the days of Charles II- the days of Nell Gwynne ,Purcell and Dryden, and the scandalous Earl of Rochester, of the first English opera and the first actresses on the Restoration stage…and of the blind and defeated poet Milton transforming his regret at the fall of …

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A 1078 Very Fine Cash in my collection. Hosts the "Yuanfeng" era with clockwise writing rather than up-down reading. Currently my oldest coin.

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antique coin seller on the pavement, kala ghoda, mumbai

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Electrum coin, Ionian people. Clazomenae after circa 300 BCE. Plate VII from the Catalogue of Greek Coins, Volume 16, 1892. Published by the British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals, editor Barclay Vincent Head. Numismatist Reginald Stewart Poole identifies this as Anaxagoras holding a globe with his foot on a …

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I kicked her and her buddy out, came back from lunch and there she was!

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 467-465 BC. AR Dekadrachm Fragment (21.11 g, 7h). Head of Athena right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing facing, wings spread; [olive sprig and crescent to upper left]; …

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A couple of years ago, before horse photography took over my life, my daughter and I were heavily into coin collecting. Not to get rich for sure, just to see as many country’s worth of coins we could collect. We soon realized we really enjoyed coins with animals on them …

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