Group pic of my colonial silver coins - almost 200 of them!!

Bill D. (VA) · May 21, 2016

I've been working on some of the hundreds of pics that'll be going in my colonial artifact book that I've been working on for the last year, and finally pulled out all my silver from the numerous displays for a group shot. Can't believe I'm approaching the 200 mark, with half of those coming in the last 5-6 years. This is a large file so you can click on it a couple of times to zoom in to see better details for the individual coins. And my slabbed Lord Baltimore sixpence is not included in this pic. Enjoy!

Calabash Digger · May 21, 2016

man thats a load of silver!

Isaac · May 21, 2016

Wow. I especially love the English silvers, they are rare over in this hemisphere! Huge congrats

villagenut · May 21, 2016

Cut Silver fits you well. Nice photo !!

kingskid1611 · May 21, 2016

How much you asking? :icon_thumright:

Garrett424 · May 21, 2016

That's one nice pile of silver...

Loco-Digger · May 21, 2016

Dang... Bill leave some for me. Seriously though that's an awesome bunch of silvers. Kudos to you. :notworthy:

CASPER-2 · May 22, 2016

Professor of Engineering · May 22, 2016

Fantastic display of colonial silver! :occasion14:

Molewacker · May 22, 2016

Scrappy · May 24, 2016

All that English Silver without touching English soil is amazing Bill. Having seen your displays you must have spent a lot of time digging through cases and disrupting everything. But, dang that picture was worth it! I wish you continued success both hunting and with your book buddy.

Steve

Steve in PA · May 24, 2016

That's quite a collection Bill. Have you caught up to Stan yet?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you have very few of the Pillar style Spanish milled coins.

I just re-read this article the other day (actually I had never read the whole thing). I found it interesting that the merchants of Richmond banded together to try and eliminate the use of cut pieces,
http://numismatics.org/wikiuploads/CNL/Pistareens.pdf

Bill D. (VA) · May 24, 2016

Steve in PA said:
That's quite a collection Bill. Have you caught up to Stan yet?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you have very few of the Pillar style Spanish milled coins.

I just re-read this article the other day (actually I had never read the whole thing). I found it interesting that the merchants of Richmond banded together to try and eliminate the use of cut pieces,
http://numismatics.org/wikiuploads/CNL/Pistareens.pdf

I could never get an exact count from Stan, and I know he was way ahead of me at one time, but I've done a lot of catching up over the last few years. Overall I'd say its probably a toss-up, although Stan has sold or given away some of his. He definitely has me beat in the cob department, but I have a big edge with hammered silver thanks to that one site.

Peyton Manning · May 24, 2016

are you counting the pieces of a coin as a whole one?
Heck if I cut up all my silver coins I would have ummm still zero!! so I guess you are better than me after all..

BuckleBoy · May 25, 2016

Good Lord!

Great stuff there. Really is amazing to see it all spread out.

Congrats,

Buck

crabstang44 · May 26, 2016

Bill D. (VA) said:
I've been working on some of the hundreds of pics that'll be going in my colonial artifact book that I've been working on for the last year, and finally pulled out all my silver from the numerous displays for a group shot. Can't believe I'm approaching the 200 mark, with half of those coming in the last 5-6 years. This is a large file so you can click on it a couple of times to zoom in to see better details for the individual coins. And my slabbed Lord Baltimore sixpence is not included in this pic. Enjoy!

so when can i go hunting with you?