I love coins with patina like this. Is this what happens when a coin is cleaned back to the bare metal on the highpoints and then left to retone?...
@Orielensis @ancient coin hunter alright your Neptunes are less worn and much nicer, but my Neptune's got that Berber stock bubble butt [ATTACH]
I think this is a great example of why grading ancient coins is so difficult - obvious and quite serious wear on the laurel, but one of the most...
This doesn't quite fit the bill, but RIC does list this coin as common. If it's not the first coin of Aurelian I've found in hundreds of...
Thanks @Orange Julius will see if those are available for Android very nifty
A rare campgate of Crispus found in an uncleaned lot. Minted shortly before his father ordered his execution, this coin appears to have faced...
Nice coin, is that Hunnic-Sasanian? I was trying to find coinage of various steppe-peoples last night, Turkic, Scythian, Hunnic and not much was...
Sorry I'd gone off topic and was just talking about cleaning, but referencing the quantities of DW you suggested for treating BD - I think 2000...
Yeah after you saying how much DW you use to treat BD, I'm thinking I might be being a tad stingy with my volumes for cleaning. I tend to have...
Interesting. Yeah I had a quick google earlier and didn't seem to be readily retailed like DW is, you'd probably have to procure it from chemical...
Both lye and sodium sesquicarbonate will strip patina given a long enough soak in strong enough solution, the latter will take longer to do so....
Put it into distilled water by itself, change the water every few days until the green powder is gone completely, then change once more and leave....
Terrible ruler or not, he was certainly a terrible porker.
Not many coyote down here in New South Mexico, so I've got the next best thing and hired a pair of enterprising young wombats to smuggle a rare...
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