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This is an image taken from our host’s site of a lowly MS62, one of four in this grade by our hosts with none better. And four more in AU58, this coin flocks towards NGC in its higher grades by a big… (View Post)

My dear co collector of Ottoman coins from Egypt and Turkey when in high grades, alerted me to the latest auction of the Egyptian gold lira (100 qirsh) from 1293/12 , a one year type that I owned in … (View Post)

And one more. A Greek 1833 half drachma, that was temporarily filling a gap in my collection, after selling one that I had for 20 years. This one is good too, but it’s gone. I had to sell it to pay f… (View Post)

I received my parcel today with other goodies. It waited an additional six weeks and some coins were added to the UPS shipment. Trying our best to reduce to a minimum the demands of a voracious Greek… (View Post)

If I send it in, and it crosses, PCGS is not going to return the empty NGC slab. So I was expecting that they should be doing that ,especially if a (single) top pop is on the line.... This is not the… (View Post)