Stick around, bosco; you'll not learn anything worthwhile, but imagine the fun you'll have!
I doubt silver...but I sure like the monkey-motion at the throat/closure! Good Fortune, Bronwen!
Look for yourselves; it's posted in CT: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/exonumia-1945-wax-facsimile-magdeburg-state-seal-in-latin.403221/
Yup...plenty o' beauty to be seen if y'can get under the scum. Given that the neck has damage, an' that we don't know a thing about its...
Exonumia...sure worth a try, MOS. I hadn't thought of them. Thanks!
No I hadn't...an' thanks!
I'm kinda new to this particular niche...but I'll put my money on the former, rather than latter.
Nope! But living here I've been fortunate to have acquaintance with several...a few of whom are now food for worms themselves, having lived into...
~4 1/8" diameter, ~.300" thick, 2 1/2 oz. The probability that there were many of these 'minted' seems to be large...but try as I might, I can...
That is a real treasure trunk...Thanks!
Thank you, Bakers!
It's ~8 3/8" diameter, ~13 oz. I can't decide if the monogram is 2 letters, or 3. On the back, the banner immediately under England will not yield...
I stumbled on this while looking for something else, as so often happens. No recollection where or when I acquired it...but looking at it an'...
Nope...it isn't cut for a belt. How 'bout a green sash?
I would call it an urn, at almost 14 inches high. If Satsuma (probable, from appearance) it's Japanese...so dynasty wouldn't be strictly correct....
I say Chinese as it has nothing remotely Japanese about it, to my eye...an' China has made a lot of carved soapstone art over many years. I've not...
Well put, AJ...
Seconded, with delight!
Greek t'me...
Losing...then dying.
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