I was very excited to discover an unexpected package awaiting me in the mailbox when I arrived home late last night. I became even more excited...
I've seen these on Roman Alexandrian drachms. Sometimes it may be a defect in the flan casting, but I've also seen them filled with bronze disease...
Worried about where the gift I should be receiving may be, but even more about the gift that I sent, since I know what was inside that one!...
Fantastic taste and acquisitions that leave me envious, as always!
The last of this year's purchases has finally arrived, so I can at last put this thread together! With a new year right around the corner, it...
It's kind of crude, but this one feels very fitting for Christmas: [ATTACH] Norman Sicily, Roger I Obverse: ROGERVS COME +S, Roger mounted left...
It's an interesting point that Ptolemaic coins have less Egyptian themes. Like the Romans, they also had a closed currency system where foreign...
One of the things that fascinates me about collecting ancient coins is that we are able to observe changes that occurred over long periods of...
The one on the top right has one of the ‘three men’ counter arms that I wrote about in my recent article, but I can’t quite make out what the...
As of this morning, my gift is on its way to its recipient! Can’t wait to see what everyone gets...
The edge of the left side of the flan on the bottom image looks a little off to me, but it’s difficult to judge for certain from photos.
Thought this was neat and worth sharing. It's an ancient Indian punchmarked silver karshapana with a nice crop of cuprite crystals growing on it....
Were I to win, I would choose Coin #2. I like coins from the margins of the 'classical' world because they remind me of the fundamental unity of...
There are several Renaissance collectors and scholars who laid the foundations that Eckhel built on. That includes Petrarch, but also less famous...
[ATTACH] I hope no one will mind a bit of shameless self-promotion, but I wanted to share my new publication with my Cointalk friends. It...
I would advise against using it. Get a replica. These are fragile, possibly prone to staining, and quite likely to contain toxic ingredients in...
I don't think anyone was trying to attack you, @Macromius. I've certainly made mistakes in cleaning coins too. And I've probably achieved results...
Sodium sesquicarbonate is not acetone; it will strip natural bronze patina if concentrated enough. It is used to treat bronze disease, not to...
Beautiful! I’m reminded of this one from the Carlos Museum in Atlanta: [ATTACH]
Very interesting coins. Zumbly's Byzantine looks sharp! For what it's worth, the pattern on the second coin posted by Zumbly, and on some of the...
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