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"Twice as thick", but it's smaller; I'm guessing the weights are about the same? The weight of an ancient coin was far more important to keep consistent than size or design. (View Post)

Prices are "all over the place" because these are an extremely common coin, but really, really hard to find in genuine Unc, because they didn't make mint sets. CV is $1 in EF, $30 in M… (View Post)

Coin collecting is "dying" only in the sense that coins themselves, as a functional class of objects, are "dying". A few hundred years ago, "coins" and "money"… (View Post)

The question in my mind would be, on coins from Britain and Canada where they still use fully Latin obverse inscriptions: wouldn't it be "CAROLVS III" rather than "CHARLES III&quo… (View Post)

Interesting; that's not German. The flag in front of the Soviet flag is Czecholslovakian (and still the current flag of the Czech Republic), and the language is Czech. Google translates it to &q… (View Post)