Pics of Numismatic coins

[madfranks]

Post your numi pics here! Here's an 1810 $5 gold half eagle. You can see a large nic on the reverse where someone probably used a knife to make sure it was the real deal.

[RUNFORTHEHILLS]

In 440 A.D Attila the HUN came down Italy and scared the folks in the MARSHES and they founded VENICE.
in 441 A.D. they had to pay him OFF from CONSTANTANOBLE hense this coin in great condition.

In 1797 some 1,356 years later VENICE fell when Napoleon conquered the CITY.

1,356 years that a long long long time...

compared to like the USA 1776 to 2010 (hopefully longer right?) = 234 years

[Rebel Yarr]

Pretty amazing HS - love that about old gold coins - the stories they could tell....

[RUNFORTHEHILLS]

I'd love to post twenty more gold OLD coins but the server says a BIG "NO!"

I guess MY allotted bandwith is exceeded - like most of our waistlines - right?

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

Here's the best quarter we've ever had:

http://www.mountainviewcoins.com/25-Standing%20Liberty%20Quarter%201924D.jpg

[RUNFORTHEHILLS]

Here's that OLD ROMAN coin remember these guyz in the BYZANTINE EMPIRE kept the gold 24 KT.
for ONE THOUSAND years....

Attila got this to stop killing the Eastern ROMAN folks there at CONSTANTINE, Turkey.

Remember that when they founded Venice for 1,356 years until Napoleon SHELLED it.

[RUNFORTHEHILLS]

Here's another DOGE or DUKE of VENICE.

do a search on him via GOOGLE

[TomD]

Just a commemorative---

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3358/4576449506_300d0e10af_o.jpg

[willie pete]

Just a commemorative---

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3358/4576449506_300d0e10af_o.jpg




Nice photo V2.3 reminds me of the work of TomD (resident photog at that "other" site... :plll) ...any relation?

[TomD]

"...any relation?"

Yes, closely---

[willie pete]

"...any relation?"

Yes, closely---


Uh Huh....thought so...you're talent gave you away... :D

[TPTB]

I just discovered this Real Money Tree in my yard. :)

[gunDriller]

I just discovered this Real Money Tree in my yard. :)

what kind of fertilizer do you use ?

any chance i could get a cutting off of it ?

actually if you used a mold and had a lot of time on your hands, i think it would be possible to make a tree grow in the shape of a silver round. just strap a bunch of them with steel tape on a young tree. as it grows, the wood will press against the coin, and mold itself in the shape of the Silver Eagle or Queen Elizabeth ... if you used SAE's & Maples.

/\ this is just a theory. 8)


by steel tape, i mean, like the stuff they use to hold lumber on pallets at lumberyards.

[TPTB]

I just discovered this Real Money Tree in my yard. :)

what kind of fertilizer do you use ?



I use a wad of FRN's as toilet paper and compost the stuff, of course. ;D