beaded border: a decorative, outer ring of tiny raised beads found on some coins.
bid: the wholesale buy price offered by coin dealers.
bidder: anyone who bids in an auction.
Beaded border
A border of dots around the edge of a coin.
Billon
An alloy of copper and silver also known as potin, but containing more than half copper.
beaded border Small, round devices around the edge of a coin, often seen on early U.S. coins. These were replaced by dentils.
Beaded border - the 1200 dpi magnification shows a closeup of the beads.
Type:
1860 Farthing ...
Beaded Border
Many, perhaps most, ancient coin designs enclosed the designs in a border of dots. It is unusual for a coin to be well centered enough to show a complete border.
Beaded border.
Reverse:
Tibetan script enclosed in a 11.3-mm diameter circle, reading: ...
Comments: These coins were made with a beaded border and a diagonally reeded edge. On the obverse note that the 2 of the date leans to the left. On the reverse there appears to be a very small die crack behind the eagle's left talon (seen as a dot).
The aureii are stuck from dies engraved with a beaded border 19 to 19.5 mm across, while the denarii were struck from dies about 18 mm across the beaded border.
There are two varieties of the 1860 penny with toothed or beaded borders, and scarce mules (e.g. obverse toothed, reverse beaded) of both types are known. It seems that dies with the beaded border developed flaws more rapidly.
From that point forward half eagles were struck with beaded borders and with a closed collar. The format was continued from 1829 through the summer of 1834.
Obv: Diademed head of Attambelos right, beaded border.
Rev: BASILEWS ATTAMBHLOU SWTHROS KAI EUERGETOU, Naked Herakles seated left, holding club, monogram above. date in exergue__ Xi Sigma 44-43 BC.
ex - Frank Robinson auction 5/2010 ...
Crowned eagle, short wings, large beaded border
No legend
KM-26 10 Pfennig (Zinc) : 1917-1922 ...
Switzerland-St. Gallen, City Coinage, Pfennig, No Date (1500s)
(No legend)
Rampant bear left wearing beaded collar, beaded border
(No legend)
Blank
Plain edge
13mm, 0.14g, Silver
Mintage: Unknown
HMZ 725
Ex Numismatik Lanz, eBay, August 2008 ...
Brutus Denarius. L SESTI PRO Q, veiled, draped bust of Libertas right / Q CAEPIO BRVTVS PRO COS, tripod between sacrificial ax and simpulum, all within beaded border. Junia 37, Syd 1290, Cr502/2.
(10 examples)
RSC 15
sear5 #1439 ...
" A beaded border surrounds the edge. The reverse inscription appears in two lines and reads "RECEIPT FOR DUES 1913 (or 1914) / ISSUED TO MEMBER NO.________". The edge is surrounded by a decorative border.
The Decline ...
The legend CONTINENTAL CURRENCY and bold date 1776 appear within the outer beaded border. The reverse presents 13 continuous links, each bearing a state name or abbreviation from N'HAMP'S to VIRGINIA.
The design for the groat was bold and imaginative, the bust of the king being shown within a quatrefoil and a beaded border and the legend EDwAxDVS DI: GItA:REx ANGLIE and continuing on the reverse DNS IusN E Dvx AQvT LoNDONIA clvl (Edward Dei ...
Kneass created a beaded border surrounded by a high, plain rim, taking advantage of a recent Mint innovation, the "close collar.
A beaded border encircles the periphery on both sides of the coin, and the edges bear the incuse inscription TWO HUNDRED FOR A DOLLAR followed by two leaves.
Any specimen that has the entire beaded border visible on the obverse is rare. For the same reasons, you often find examples without the reverse inscription fully on the flan, particularly on the tetradrachms.
Raised rim and beaded border, as on the obverse.
Edge: Vine and bars, as before.
 See also: Reverse, Revers, Struck, Coin, Silver
  
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