Recent Judaean Aquisitions

Thanks for that report!

I'd be interested in seeing some of your Zurqieh coins before and after removal of the yellow wax (or whatever that stuff is). They do have many coins of interest to me but I haven't bought from them because of the presumably applied patinas. I'd have to remove the yellow stuff to feel comfortable about the long term health of the coin, and I'd like to know what it is going to look like before I buy it.

 

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Our scarabs come from Hussam. He's got a really neat selection of coins and antiquities.

Erin

 

My only from that period & only slabbed ancient

Alexander Jannaeus
103-76 BC
Ae Prutah

 

Your fear of flight is justified. Before I became an airplane mechanic I flew everywhere. Now I prefer to keep my feet on the ground.

 

There is where we differ when talking coins and paintings. The coin equivalent of what was done to The Last Supper would render the subject coin unsaleable in polite society (here defined as my opinion and those of my generation numismatically). Some will say that the painting would soon disappear had the work not been done. The same is true for coins. Some of them are one of a kind; some are headed for elimination (buried in the earth is what dog people call a "kill shelter"). If Jesus' face were to be fading away, people would want it restored unless that particular face happened to be on a worn to Fine Anonymous Christ follis in which case we would say to leave it with no nose. The argument that loss of a fading painting is worse than a lost coin has merit just like the theories that little white lies are not like false witness in court and falling trees that are heard by no one make no sound.

 

I dare not imagine what effect that stuff would have if it were incidentally applied on a human skin....

Q

 

... anyway ...

Here are a couple of my standard and very humble Judean coins ... note, there are a few areas which have some random "stuff" (crusties and/or desert-patina sand)

=> gawd, I do not want to remove this "stuff" ... it is part of the coin's history and its travels, no?



hmmm? ... maybe I'm just scared that removing the "stuff" will ruin the coin? (well, it's a coin-risk that I'm not willing to take)

 

Great thoughts! One of the forum members sent me the link to Mr. Fontanille's Menorah Coin Project website. It's a great reference source for Judaean coins. One of the tabs leads to a Cleaning Service page. Looking at it raises some questions for me. One is: Is Repatination following cleaning an acceptable practice? If it is acceptable, how is it different from applying cosmetic desert sand make-up to the surface of the coin?