- Very fine: $48
- Extra fine: $78
- Uncirculated: $173
1825 Coronet, Head Right
- Very fine: $80
- Extra fine: $138
- Uncirculated: $329
Sale of slaves in Richmond, Virginia (USA), around 1861. Private collection • BRIDGEMAN IMAGES The slave trade was governed by criteria of cost and profit, like any capitalist enterprise. On the African coasts, traffickers negotiated prices with local authorities and brokers, sometimes without r
The Sharps military rifle 1863 Sharps Carbine Very popular with cavalry on both sides (less so than the 7-shot Spencer carbine, however, and far more common than the field rifle version) the single-shot Sharps carbine was a lightened and shortened version of the rifle. The brevity of the falling
The Spencer is a North American military rifle designed in 1860. It combines radical innovations for the time:breech loading and a quick reloading system with manual repetition by trigger lever. The reserve of seven metal cartridges (rimfire) is contained in a tubular magazine housed in the butt. T
The rebellion in Turnovo, Bulgaria that broke out in 1598 was a trans-Balkan effort. Its main organizer was the bishop of the city Dionysios Rallis, the Bulgarian boyar Teodor Balina from Nikopolis, the Croatian Pavel Dortic from Ragusa (todays Dubrovnik), the bishops Theophanes, Jeremiah, Methodios