Thank you for marking the photos. I’ve read about cast coins but aside from one that had filed edges have never seen one offered for sale. Or so I...
Congratulations on making the hike. Did you start in the west or east? I’ll be based out of Newcastle, but based on what I’ve read I am thinking...
Beautiful coin. A ship’s rudder is very appropriate. I do not live in the UK and when I visit for work I rarely have time to leave London, which...
No argument from me. @Curtisimo and @Andres2 coins are both far nicer than mine. The Neptune reverse is out of my range in better condition, so I...
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. This is more what I would expect a flan to look like given the age.
Not yet. But if I keep turning up with stuff like this I fear it might be my future.
My wife isn’t a collector of anything but dogs, but she politely oohs and aahs when I show her my latest acquisition for one of my collections....
I’m as far from an expert as they come, but for what it’s worth the “C” looks to me like a countermark. Alexander tets often have countermarks,...
I have the opportunity to do something I’ve always wanted to do: hike Hadrian’s wall. Time constraints mean I cannot walk the entire length of the...
Unless it’s a terrible copy, it’s almost impossible to discern if a coin is real or not from photographs. Ancient coins are never perfect and...
Thanks everyone for the replies. My concern was less about authenticity than proper attribution. If the Athens coins were all one die axis, then...
@dougsmit. That’s been my experience as well. I first read the 9H and 3H observation on Forvm, and it’s stuck with me ever since. My obol is 6H as...
Thank you TIF for teaching me two things. One about the die axis of these coins, and the other that CNG lists them.
I recently acquired this coin: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Attica, Athens 454-404 BC AR Tetradrachm Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye...
Personally, I wouldn’t touch that coin, but for what it’s worth I’ve had good success cleaning silver coins with the baking soda and aluminum foil...
Not going to slab it, carry it in a leather pouch attached to my keychain. My concern with Zurqieh's lots are how underweight the coins are. They...
I agree a large bronze is satisfying to handle and carry. I originally started this idea with a large orichalcum bronze of <somebody> that I...
That is exactly what I have in mind TIF. The leather guitar pick holder, which I modified by adding a second piece of letter to prevent the coin...
Indeed. One my disappointments is that the find location of the coin isn’t included as part of its provenance. I would be very interested in...
I appreciate the heads up, I would have expected exactly the opposite to occur, with lower grade examples getting squeezed out.
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