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The hoard find is interesting... I've never seen any large grouping of portraits come out of Russia. Zacatecas portraits were truly terrible in the early years of the WOI... 1816 seems to begin … (View Post)

Had this out so took a pic. Somewhat subdued luster, as examples of this debased silver coinage often exhibit. Not many of these 4S have great booming cartwheel. In hand, it IS a bit twinklier, but a… (View Post)

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LOL, not much image left to search by! Date, Nicol*... and _RIBVRG enough to deduce Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland. 1622 Batzen (View Post)

Unless it was some blatantly overlooked MAJOR error (i.e., legend misspelling, 1748 dead king reverse, etc)... no minor variety would be worth ANYWHERE NEAR this anomalous price. If two bidders think… (View Post)