scottishmoney

Sorry for the OT, but I keep thinking of Monty Python with "Bring out your dead" when I see this post.

That is quite alright you thread hijackers, but as long as we all like discussing our vehicular desires

Hopefully they are more chaste than some people in public.

Dang, I like it. Looks good ta me

There are some avatars here that are interesting, I understand CP's in fact it is rather humourous, but what about yours? Mine is from a 1927 Czech banknote, 10 Koruna which was designed by the Moravian artist Alfons Mucha, a well known artist of the late 19th and very early 20th centuries.

I wonder that Posh Beckham is tiring of living of Davey boy's largesse?

PM the picture to me, I will put it on my webhost and post it back here.

That is the main drawback of this hobby. Recently I have rekindled my interest in my model railroad. It is time consuming and not really costly after the initial investment. I have my coins in several safe deposit boxes in the bank, where some have remained sight unseen for many years at a time. It gets too hard to appreciate them when you can only look at them on the internet(my website) or bother with all the hassle of looking at them in the bank. It may prevail upon me to sell a lot of them at some point in the future. The nice thing about the model railroad is I do not have to worry nearly so much about the house being ransacked for it.

Kind of interesting how many collectors started at the hobby, then left it for some time and came back years later. Coins have been one hobby that have never come and gone for me, but many other hobbies are perpetually on the back burner, currently my model railroad is readying for reassembly within the confines of my basement, thence the Wabash Cannonball shall thunder across the 4' x 8 ' once more. My Soviet Russian Air Force has been in mothballs for some time too. Welcome aboard.

It just shouts the seller is a red flagger.

As tacky as it is, it at least has some style and class. I cannot say the same for some of the stuff on eBay lately, some is downright hideous: From the Cook Islands.

It kerplonked.

Actually tat is not the word that comes to mind, especially when you consider the God Save the Queen coin etc, it is more likely a four letter word which proper English grammar frowns upon the usage of.

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Are the Turkish pieces bracteates?

Yep, and notice that private bidder detail of the auction. Obviously this seller saw the Syra and still sold it as an original. Of course it is practically impossible to discern how to report counterfeit coins to eBay.

I agree, it is a nice piece, and a wonderful person. However I wonder that the opportune to make a few quid out of her image still drives this as a collectable.

San Francisco mint $20 from 1874. I like the Liberty $20's slightly more than the St. Gauden's $20.

I don't really have a lot of gold coins, just a few older USA coins, mostly gold rush era. This is a type 1 gold dollar from 1851. One of the first coins issued by the San Francisco mint, which opened in the small office of a private minter that year.

They do nice work, but I am afraid too nice, and with the small countermark, these will easily pass on eBay as the real thing if not already.

Also think Peter Rosa got involved with some of this.

The USA is paying heavily for rebuilding Germany and Japan after WWII, in terms of training their managers in effective business technique, and then promptly forgetting how to employ it in the USA after the 1960's. And we will see who won the Cold War, some 25 years after 1989, I have a feeling it may NOT be the USA, but Russia.

For the price of that I could buy myself 5 gorgeous wives.

I want a female to win all races. After all, like Danica, they have the "weight advantage" that the guys complain about.

Any coin I pay over $1000 for better have one very very attractive female on it. All my most expensive ones do. Because women are the only works of art in everything.