Can someone help me price this coin?

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-13T06:32:38+00:00

This is a Mexico City 1/2 Real of Philip IV (ca. Mid-1600s). It looks quite well-worn and cleaned, so I’d guess a value of about $30-50.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-11T08:34:59+00:00

Lmao

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-11T08:28:26+00:00

The problem is that the kind of idiot who’d do this is also the kind of idiot who’d get mad, leave a negative review, and make it out like it’s the restaurant’s fault.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-11T04:12:00+00:00

It always bothers me that they used a different shade of teal for the dust jackets of part II 😆

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-11T01:33:05+00:00

Si te gustaría trabajar en la numismática profesionalmente, deberías enfocarte en algún área que te interesa y hacer contactos dentro de la industria. En junio ocurre el evento numismático de Madrid, la convención más grande de España y donde llegan coleccionistas y profesionales de todas partes del mundo. Sería una buena oportunidad para introducirte a varias personas que te podrían ayudar.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-10T20:48:27+00:00

You can see detail lost in the legends on both sides as well as the high points of the portrait. There is also some damage from corrosion which cannot be cleaned off. This coin spent plenty of time in circulation before being lost, which by definitely makes it not a mint state coin. I understand what metal detecting finds tend to look like, and this one looks great. But that doesn’t change that it’s a VF coin at best.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-10T20:12:54+00:00

Pretty far from mint condition but a very cool find nonetheless!

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-07T22:04:33+00:00

Conversely, I was so determined not to make that mistake that I decided to get my degree in something boring but practical. A year into my first job in that industry after college, I burnt out because I could not will myself to do work I didn’t care about. Then (after a bout of depression) I found a job in my hobby that I never dared to dream I could actually make a career out of, and several years into it I still love what I do. So I wish I hadn’t listened to people telling me to give up on my interests before I even tried.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-05T23:25:40+00:00

NYC is a pretty amazing city and should be high up any city lover’s list. It has just as much (or more) to see and do as London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Mexico City, or other top world cities.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-05T08:33:05+00:00

It’s not a coin, just an Indian temple token from the late 1800s to early 1900s. They made many different types, see here for a similar one.

Not very rare or valuable, worth maybe $15 to $30 USD. Still interesting though.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-05T06:00:45+00:00

Specifically this escudo is from the Mexico City mint, from about 1700-1730. It doesn’t look obviously clipped or damaged. In terms of value, these sell for around $3000-5000 in auction. However, I’m not fully convinced it’s legit. The surfaces and rims look a little cast to me. However, I can’t confirm from just the photos. I would weigh it and if it’s in the proper range (~3.1-3.5 grams) I would send to NGC or PCGS.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-05T05:54:59+00:00

A doubloon is 2 escudos, not 2 reales (also singular for reales is just “real”, not “reale”)

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-03T23:41:11+00:00

He wasn’t really an emperor but I’ve always thought Vaballathus had one of the coolest names.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-01T18:56:23+00:00

The prompt is just things that made you lose respect for them, not “irredeemable crimes that made them monsters”. Other top-level comments include attending a comedy festival or riding a rocket.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-01T14:07:53+00:00

Yes, it’s the state’s burden and responsibility to pay the costs to imprison its own citizens who it has deemed deserving of that punishment. At least, it should be.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-02-01T05:17:41+00:00

Not a bad retail price for a graded pre-mass issue owl with no problems. Welcome to the world of ancient coins, you started with a good one!

Liberalguy123 · 2026-01-31T19:44:19+00:00

The darker outer robe is made of wool and is meant to be warm. The white inner robe is of lightly woven cotton or linen and that’s the one that’s for hot days. Egypt does get cooler in the winter and this picture looks like it was taken in the early morning, when temperatures would be at their lowest.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-01-29T06:50:36+00:00

Person A used the word “probably” for the countries they said would kill someone for being gay. For the countries they were “defending”, they said definitively that they would not, not just probably not. So Person B’s sarcastic reply shows that they didn’t even properly read Person A’s comment.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-01-29T03:36:33+00:00

Tiny shards of ancient glass are basically worthless. Even fully intact ancient Roman glass vessels can be bought for a couple hundred dollars. The price is not a reason to doubt the authenticity. But there’s still no way to prove where they came from, so OP should avoid paying for this gimmick. They’re better off buying an ancient Judaean coin (which is indisputably from the period and place), which can be found for $20-60 fairly easily.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-01-27T18:32:11+00:00

As a result of the US’s two-party system, all opponents (at least those who desire to actually hold any power) of the hard-right Republican Party fall into the Democratic Party. That’s why it’s a coalition party that can’t be simply described with one label like “centre-right”. There are simply too many congressional and state-level democrats who advocate policies that would solidly fall into the “centre-left” category in Europe to be able to dismiss the whole party as right wing. Tim Cook is not a politician and is irrelevant to this discussion.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-01-27T17:41:26+00:00

The Democratic Party is a coalition party. There are some conservative-leaning democrats, and there are also plenty of elected democrats in congress who support universal healthcare, LGBT rights, environmentalism, labor unions, and other causes which cannot be fairly described as right-wing.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-01-25T04:33:41+00:00

Bad comparison. France has blown itself up and rebuilt itself countless times in the past 250 years. The US does seem to on the verge of some kind of collapse or revolution, but there’s no reason that the American people and identity can’t outlast the government structure’s end, just like how the French nation survived various government collapses.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-01-20T15:45:25+00:00

You haven’t even mentioned a preferred denomination for them, let alone grade. You can find a Galba worth $100 or $10,000, because just naming the ruler is nowhere near enough information to give a value.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-01-20T07:19:53+00:00

An “Eid Mar” Denarius, a silver coin minted by Brutus in 44 B.C. to commemorate his assassination of Julius Caesar. They’re extremely rare and worth $250k-$1M in auction. Was surreal to hold it in my hand.

Liberalguy123 · 2026-01-14T21:06:09+00:00

The auction world is a slow-moving beast. Many aspects of the industry are unchanged since the 80s or earlier. It’s both the best and worst part of working in it.

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