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Monedas 1/4 de dólar "Dr. Vera Rubin", 1 dólar "Michigan auto assembly line"

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The problems with being a coin collector.

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Coinstar finds!

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I bought some coins

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Some coin collection highlights

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Archaic Greek Turtle Obols, c. 535-500 BCE

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Small ancient Greek silver coins from Ephesos, c. 6th-4th cent. BCE: Three AR Diobols (10-11mm) & AR Tetartemorion (7mm)

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The smallest coin in my collection (banana for scale)

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Antoninus Pius Sestertius (Rome 140 CE) ex collections of Apostolo Zeno (1668-1750, Venetian librettist & curator of Holy Roman Emperor Karl VI collection), St. Florian Monastery (Austria c. 1747-1950s), Curtis Clay (Am. numismatist)

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Ancient Greek Coin: Silver Obol (9mm, 0.71g) struck in Tarsus, circa 380 BCE, under Datames (Persian Satrap of Cilicia & Cappadocia). Artemis & Aphrodite (?). Ex "Collection sans Pareille" (914), Hans von Aulock (1906-1980) & Leo Mildenberg (1913-2001)

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€1 from Royal Dutch Mint with Women to Space medal in coin card

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Greek Silver Hemidrachm, c. 357-354 BCE, struck by the Phokian League under Philomelos. Bull & Apollo.

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Ancient coin book newly added to my numismatic library. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum - Burton Berry Collection. With BCD Library binding

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Small Penny

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Small ancient Greek coin depicting Bull & Horse: silver Obol struck in Krannon (in Thessaly), c. 460 BCE

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Tiny Archaic Greek Coins, struck c. 500 BCE on the island Lesbos. Size: 5-10 mm, 0.3-1.35 g. Depicting two abstract eyes on one, pair of confronted boar heads on the other two

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Tiny Sicilian bronze coin depicting bull & horned river god. Struck in Gela c. 420 BCE. Published in 1989 in Lindgren vol II, no. 459

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Roman bronze coin of Vespasian, struck in 71 CE. Published in RIC, previously in the H. Platt Hall (1863-1949), Curtis Clay & J.S. Wagner Collections

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Greek Silver Hemidrachm depicting Asclepius (god of healing), 290-250 BCE. From the 1979 Epidauros Hoard

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Athens "New Style" Silver Tetradrachm, struck c. 120 BCE. Ex Collections of Mark Salton (1914-2005), Count de Laval (1883-1970). This coin cited in Thompson, "New Style Silver Coinage of Athens" (1962: p. 204,  No. 540d.3).

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Germany 2004 - 10 Euro Columbus Laboratory on ISS Proof

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2022S/2023S silver American women quarters

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Collection Focus - Space - Kopernik

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Vespasian Denarius with Vesta on the reverse. De-accessioned from American Numismatic Society & Hispanic Society of America museums, w/ their tag. Ex Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955) Collection.

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Just some old bank notes that looks cool.

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This is what 40 francs look like in Djibouti

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1877 S trade dollar

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50 Ukrainian hryvnia

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1997 and 2022 mexico liberatad

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1957 silver certificate star note

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1922 gold certificate

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1982 250th anniversary George Washington half dollar

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Cameroon 500 Francs - Commemorative issue - 550th Birth Anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus

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1925 stone mountain half dollar

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1893 Columbian exposition half dollar

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2€ Coin hunt - Feb 2023

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1992-W 200th anniversary of the white house silver dollar

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1783 2 reale from el cazador shipwreck

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1946 Booker T. Washington half dollar

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First year Carson city morgan silver dollar

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1990 p ike centennial dollar

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Thessaly Silver Obol (10mm, 0.81g), struck in 480-450 BCE in Herakleia Trachinia. Published in 1913. (Ex Collections of BCD, F.R. Jameson 1081a, J.P. Lambros, J. Gilman.)

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Tiny 5th Cent. BCE Ancient Silver Coin from Macedonia, Skione (Hemiobol, 6mm, 0.34g). Depicting Protesilaos (obverse) & Human Eye (reverse). Published in 2013: Ophthalmologia in Nummis by J. Galst & P. van Alfen.

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An absolute beauty eh?

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You ever seen 20,000 vietnamese dongs?

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Roman Denarius (Titurius Sabinus, 89 BCE) depicting the abduction of the Sabine women.

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A gift from my buddy Doug!

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1938 penny huge die crack

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1986 p and d uncirculated penny errors

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Ancient Roman Silver Denarius (146 BCE) showing a water spaniel with a "lion cut."

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I think I found a $100,000 coin.

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Ancient Greek Silver Coins: Small, Smaller, Tiny, Tinier, Microscopic... c. 5th cent. BCE to 1st cent. CE.

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Ancient Greek Bronze Coin from Olympia. Hera / Eagle. Dated as late 30s BCE, but possibly as early as the 3rd cent. BCE. (Ex Collections Franke, Morcom, Morcom, Warren.)

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Ancient Greek Silver Coin Struck c. 300 BCE: Akarnania, Leukas AR Stater (20mm, 8.62g, 6h). Symbol: Grapes & Amphora. BCD Akarnania 278.1 (this coin)

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Ancient Roman Bronze Coins from the Constantinian Dynasty with Four Different Captives & Barbarians Reverse Types (struck c. 310-350 CE)

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Follis of Constantine II, struck in Siscia, 320 CE. Ancient Roman Imperial Bronze Coin.

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Tiny Ancient Roman Error Coins ("Broackages"), incuse reflection of portrait struck on reverse, 4th cent. CE.

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Some Ancient Romano-Spanish & Celt-Iberian Bronze Coins, mostly struck 2nd century BCE to 1st cent. CE

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Ancient Greek Coin: Silver of Obol (0.63g, 10mm) of Baktrian King Eukratides, c. 170 BCE/

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Otacilia Portrait Sestertius, struck in Rome c. 245 CE. Ex G.H. Earle Jr. (1856-1928) & Mark Salton (1914-2005) Collections

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