Drusus

You have the most amazing collection of English hammered coinage I've ever seen, and the history lessons you provide are simply fascinating! Thanks so much for sharing all of these with us.

ditto!

I thought this medal was rather wordy...not quite as wordy as the ones posted though

Opium poppies? Hmmm... yeah, I guess they could be poppies, indeed. I never really looked. But then again I've never seen a woman walking around with oak leaves (w/acorns), olive branches (w/olives) and wheat in her hair.

Where do you live? I see that every day...If I only had a centime for every woman I see out shopping with oak leaves and wheat in her hair...

Thats some serious cross hatching

Another great transaction...fast and a very high quality coin at fair price.

China 20 cents came, good experience...thanks

very nice...

I would have to say you got a real deal...

That is one outstanding portrait...mind me asking how much you got that one for? Couldnt have been that cheap I would think...

while I have nothing to add...I just wanted to say great thread and medal...thanks to Goetzdude I have gain a real appreciation of Karl Goetz (and medals in general).

You need to give us a close up detail of this lady...

the detail of that headdress looks outstanding.

It is always a pleasure to visit your sites. Thank you.

ditto...one of my favorite sites.

Helped me out with a great coin for a great price...thanks a bunch. Got it in the mail today...

I'm in...and I will post it on my site as well...sounds like a great idear.

maybe get a solder iron, heat the small amount on the coin then quickly get a soft rag and wipe it off while its still liquid?

very informative...thanks

Ancient to modern and in between...although it is a small little book, it packs a lot of info in it and covers many of the different historical methods, from hammering to modern presses and many in between as well as photos, diagrams of different old style presses and how mints were set up at different times in history. Nice little book. I had hoped it would be more of a 'how to' to do it yourself minting but I am not at all disappointed that it turned out to be a history of minting through the ages....even my wife who isnt into coins at all started reading it and enjoyed it and was impressed at how much info was packed into such a small book and loved the old illustations, photos and diagrams.

Just bought this little book, thought I would share. Very informative, a history and how its done regarding minting coins by Shire

Coins and Minting: Shire Album No. 106

Cooper, Denis

I grade it VN on the DGS (Drusus Grading Scale)....VN = Very Nice

great POV...its my point of view being a collector without deep pockets

worthy note...though the last 2 were tough, either winning would have been fine since they were both great bills...grats and twas fun.

Jeeze, thanks for the encouraging words. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve it, or do you just like to take pot shots at people who have invested a lot of energy into trying to create something useful?

Just use a color and not a busy background tile. You can barely read the links and text...or if you use a tile graphic make sure it is not competing with the reason why you have the site up...the information and links. Its just very busy and hard to see the text...I DID say it was a good useful idea...I might have been overly brash in my critisism of the background but in that was my suggestion to change it...my apologies if it was insulting...

A large list of major banks in many countries. Very helpful!

 

Central Banker

thanks for the link...helpful site but that background is CRAP-TACULAR!!

that is one of the nicer euro designs I have seen.

I am using this thread as a shopping list