and it gets really tough as soon as you hit MS 60
Ruler Carlo Alberto Coinage Type Mainland Reform Coinage Mint Genoa Composition Silver Fineness 0
Each with its own brief biography on the reverse
and usually some uncirculated mint-red coins in bags of 1000
The top of the 5 was clearly recut
Byzantine Empire, Phocas AV Solidus Constantinople Mint, 602-610 AD, Choice AU (Luster!) KM.12.1 and it gets really toughPhocas. AD 602 610. AV Solidus, 4. 48 gm. Constantinople mint. Obv: DN FOCAS PERP AVG (the D has a long upper serif to the left), draped and cuirassed facing bust, wearing crown without pendilia, holding cross on globe. Rev: VICTORIA AVGU and officina letter, angel standing facing, holding P headed cross and cross on globe; mintmark CONOB. DOC II 10e; MIB II 9; SB 620. Phocas (Latin: Flavius Phocas Augustus; Greek: , Phokas; 547 5 October 610) was