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jecz79's Last 20 Posts
| Bought Only For Beauty?
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
478 Posts |
 Posted 06/08/2025 09:56 am
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I did and do. But I have been tending towards the quaint and the crude, seeing beauty on some of those. Hammer struck coins in the modern era, like the non mughal indian coins. Or the more abstract post western roman empire gold.
I like that cistophoric tetra. |
| | Forum: Ancient, Greek, Roman, and Medieval Coins |
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| An Ancient And Old Coin
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
478 Posts |
Posted 05/14/2025 8:27 pm
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Can you say where it was found?
It it was european or from around the Mediterranean I would compare with coins of the medieval period. Because of what looks like letters with broad, straight strokes around. If it was V V V it could be from those centuries.
But it it was found in Iran I can not make any guess. |
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| Legal Implications Of Collecting.
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
478 Posts |
Posted 05/14/2025 8:20 pm
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Europe is fortunately not yet a unified monster. This is happening only in some countries. Do not panic because of news from one.
Anywhere it will be the product of laws that are made with an intent to grant arbitrary powers to certain people in positions of authority. They only bother exerting that power when they see some profit it in. Personal profit or career profit. Notoriety. You get targeted if you have something of value, something that draws attention. And must be unlucky to be noticed by one of those people.
A sad state of affairs for this to happen at all. But it has been only the occasional unlucky collector of ancient coins who advertises a rare and expensive coin who risks having it stolen under cover of law. I can at least say that about Spain. I can believe Greece to be much more corrupt in this sense of how power is arbitrarily exercised, as enabled by their laws.
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| How Can An Object Shaped Like An Apple Be Considered A Coin?
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
478 Posts |
Posted 05/14/2025 8:03 pm
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Sap, I disagree with that definition. It could have made sense in a better-ordered time. It is unfit today.
This apple shaped thing was issued by some company outside the country it pretends to be a coin from. Used to be businesses in Europe, Germany and some other countries. Perhaps now in Asia. Or one of the old mints that specialized in weird things. Like the Paris mint. The company may have paid some small fee to officials of the government of Cameroon for a law authorizing the item as having those 100 CFA value. It does not matter because the thing could not ever be recognized by anyone as usable as a coin.
These things are not coins. And it is not only the make believe countries like it used to. Like mall islands and ungoverned countries like Somalia. The french and other countries with old mints are doing it. Selling medals as if they were coins.
I think it can no longer be accepted as enough for an object to be called a coin that there is a law authorizing it as having some currency value. Collectors should boycott these things when they are passed as coins. A coin must be usable as a coin. If it could not anywhere, at any time, be generally recognized by the public as a coin it not and was never been a coin.
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| ICG 1896 MS64 Pl? What Would You Grade It.
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
478 Posts |
Posted 04/27/2025 4:38 pm
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If the condition for PL is polished reflective fields that one is not PL. Those correspond to the first coins struck with a new die. When the topmost portion of the dies are still perfect. Or with a re-polished die.
Yours has the nice frosty look in the raised portions of the coin design. But the fields are also a little frosty already. Probably not struck with new dies. |
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| Will $3,000.00+ Gold Lead To The Depletion Of Collectable Gold Coins?
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
478 Posts |
Posted 04/27/2025 4:19 pm
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100:1 in half a century. The dollar has beaten the denarius devaluation during the crisis of the third century. Dollar and so many other currencies.
I am losing hope this is a passing thing. Prices are too high now to collect gold coins. Only exchanging some. Still after all the melt value available types of US gold coins, missing some indians.
thecoinguy1964 I know those I sell or exchange now are going to melt. There is a big melting going on because price is too volatile and premiums too low to delay in reselling them. Asked dealers. Coin at melt value, to the foundries it goes. |
| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Coins |
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| Who Can Report Positive Results From Selling At Auction?
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
478 Posts |
Posted 04/27/2025 4:02 pm
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I noticed the values you mentioned. Perhaps you have common gold coins there? Beware of selling gold coins at auctions if the metal price has reached the numismatic value.
Any auction fees will make auctioning worse than selling them for melt value. I am seeing that here in Europe happening to common gold coins 100 to 200 years old. |
| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Coins |
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| C N G: Imported Coins Will Be Subjected To Tariffs
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
478 Posts |
Posted 04/04/2025 7:23 pm
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This can lead to any number of strange situations.
With ancients I expect that once country of origin has to be spelled out there will be more claims by the governments of those countries for the coins. Confiscations.
With moderns, some coins struck in the Americas for use in Spain and Portugal are different only by mintmark. So a peça struck in Rio will be treated differently than one stuck in Lisbon? They were produced by the same polity for use in the same place.
Better yet, many countries recently and not so recently order their coins and bank notes made in foreign mints. A south african coin struck in Berlin pays the tariff for Germany? A tunisian coin struck in Paris also?
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