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jecz79's Last 20 Posts
| Two Athena Owls: Are They The Same Desirability?
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
444 Posts |
 Posted 02/24/2025 4:08 pm
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The estimates I have read and believe are that Athens struck many tens of millions of classical tetradrachms. It is a very common coin. Tens of thousands are being sold recently from a mysterious hoard. Some say found in Turkey. Some say Syria. Some speculate it is the product of looting from museums in that collapses state.
It is shameful that France and Greece are gifting to Turkey thousands of coins attributed to this hoard without first doing and publishing a full photographic inventory of the coins. If they came from a genuine hoard such photographs would be very useful for study of the type. The sellers will not be doing that work.. Perhaps the inventory exists but I found nothing published.
I think the open mouthed Athena in the second coin very odd. The helmet decoration is classical mass produced type. I would expect the mouth to be as the first.
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| Breaking Apart A NGC Case: Stupid Idea?
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
444 Posts |
Posted 02/23/2025 6:09 pm
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I'm all for cracking out coins that aren't ultra-rare museum-quality pieces that require the utmost care and protection from the environment.
Something like a Messana hare tetradrachm with Pan should be slabbed, or a high copper-content coin that will react with the environment. I'd definitely break out a common Athenian own, though -- it's a piece of history to hold, it's not reactive, and it already survived the last 2500 years just fine.
You have it completely wrong. Those slabs do not protect coins. Look at the warranties that the companies selling the slabs include. No long warranty for copper or other reactive metals.
If you have a coin you must protect, take it out of the plastic box and protect it properly. The best and time tested method have been varnishes where corrosion is a problem. Only make sure you pick one that can be removed easily.
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| Cent Collection Looks Lacquered
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
444 Posts |
Posted 02/11/2025 8:35 pm
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| Never mind what the sellers of plastic cases say or do. If the lacquer is well preserved, not cracked, let the coins be as it is. It is doing its job preserving it. And will do a much better job than any plastic case. Those plastic cases come with no warranty and an expiry date for the grade they carry because they do not seal the coin. |
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| Any Papal Medals Out There?
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
444 Posts |
Posted 02/05/2025 3:37 pm
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Pius XII year XX medal.
It commemorates the participation of the Holy See in the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Counts as an extraordinary yearly medal. The official one for year XX was about the Vatican Radio.
The sculpture was done by Aurelio Mistruzzi. The obverse has the usual representation of the pope, Pius XII in his last year. The reverse depicts on the left the church included in the pavilion of the Vatican in the Expo, on the right a city wall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:...Building.tif
In front an allegory of the church opening its fold to embrace and sponsor works of human ingenuity.
The medal is very well preserved. But the previous owner had it exposed and has accumulated much dust. That can facilitate corrosion in the future. I am thinking if a quick treatment with a weak base to remove all that dirt is called for. Or should be content with storing it in a dry environment.
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| | Forum: Tokens, Medals, Challenge Coins, and other Exonumia |
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| 20 Francs Louis-Napoléon
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
444 Posts |
Posted 02/05/2025 3:16 pm
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This may be called bullion, with gold so expensive. But I am still chasing a 20 francs gold type set in mint state. Has the pre-coup Napoleon missing. Until now I think. Baggy but uncirculated?
1852 had a 10 million mintage but it is a single year type and finding an uncirculated one here is not easy. |
| | Forum: World Coin Grading |
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| Looking Back On Punic Carthage
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
444 Posts |
Posted 01/22/2025 7:34 pm
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Thank you. I have only picked a bronze corroded carthagian here in the Iberian Peninsula. Never seen a single silver one for sale in person.
Whatever happened they are not common. Should read up what the spanish have written on the topic, some day. |
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| Chinese Kwang Tung 2 Mace 7 Candereens - Analysis Of Coins By A Complete Novice
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
444 Posts |
Posted 01/22/2025 7:26 pm
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I was going to say to say it was very much scrubbed and would lose numismatic value by current standards.
It is a pity. Big Chinese silver is expensive now. Not uncommon in my opinion but there is a mania.
As you have already noticed collectors in China like the coins showing their age. I sympathize. Yours had that stripped away.
Not surprised if some sellers try creating artificial patina to make the coins they sell appear more valuable. |
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| Is Anyone Picking Up Gold Coins?
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
444 Posts |
Posted 01/22/2025 7:15 pm
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Dealers here are very happy importing and selling bullion coins. Been noticing lots of mint quality indian eagles. Uncommon here so they must be coming from another european country. Some banks are still emptying vaults? Or perhaps they are now crossing the Atlantic to Europe?
They are selling at bullion price. But I do not think it is to collectors. |
| | Forum: US Classic and Colonial Coins |
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| A Collection Of Coins From Portugal
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jecz79
Valued Member
Portugal
444 Posts |
Posted 01/20/2025 7:20 pm
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You got a very very nice Batalha de Ourique commemorative. Many lack the fine detail in the mail shirt. Mine is about the same and I had to pick among many.
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Nice coin, hfjacinto. But why commemorate something in 1928 that happened 789 years before? Why not wait until the 750th or 800th anniversary?
I can explain. Portuguese commemorative coins used to be minted to finance specific things with the profits.The 1928 10 escudos was minted to finance a monument to the battle. There had been a military coup in 1926 and Portugal was going through the commemorations of origins typical of those decades in europe. But the state was almost broke. So they issued a commemorative with a higher face value than the silver it contained. It had the same silver as the 50 centavos issued in 1912 to 1918.
The silver escudo and centavos had been withdrawn from circulation the population because the country joined the first world war and got broke in it. The value of the silver in the coins went above the face value in the end of 1918. Always a terrible idea to participate in any unnecessary war.
The series hfjacinto showed previously were issued to finance the commemorations of the portuguese discoveries in the decade of 1990.
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