Many thanks - that's good enough for me too. I heard good things about EDTA for treating "Bronze Disease" about 20 years back, and went and got...
I see you know more chemistry then me, (but still, maybe less about coin cleaning?) EDTA became very popular specifically for treating Bronze...
Don't get me started :rolleyes:
Yes, I agree, and that is in line with Cribb's position. That an idea of coins began in the West (probably Lydia) and spread rapidly both West...
[ATTACH] OK - here are some basics on these PMC's The main Magadha/Mauryan series is very roughly contemporary with Roman Republican but...
Sorry - took me a while to track the paper down - (got bogged down on trying to get to the Researchgate version). Note this paper has only been...
Thanks for the thoughts Yes, of course! No one is denying that. However, that legend does seem to me to be the best explanation of of etymology...
I did some work on this matter a couple of years back - but since gave up on trying to publish it formally - (sheesh - just too hard to find...
Wade-Giles was in the past far more accurate to western thinking and pronunciation. But as with academia one cannot make a name for themselves...
In my hasty look up I got the numbers right and the legend wrong : -(. Anyhow - Ken is right about the weights from a collector's point of...
Hello Doug You need to be looking at page 143 of Hartill - N. Sung Your coin is amongst 16.290 - 16.293 Yuan Yu (I think - though it seems a...
Yes - I completely agree - ought to have been. Actually, the odd thing puzzling me is - why when modern academia looks at any matter to do with...
I suppose my reply is - why are you sure? The only publication I am aware of is a few paragraphs in the back pages of the Salcombe excavation...
This might appeal to some who have an interest in oral history, or just in strange coincidences. I take it from memory but can fill out reference...
I much enjoyed I-Claudius, but think his really great book was White Goddess. It seems to operate in a space somewhere between fact and fairy...
I have a bit of an advantage here as I met the guy so got his aims from the horses mouth. He seemed to be using the worn corroded versions of the...
Here is a parallel story (from the 1920's I think) At the bottom of the page linked next is a photo of a huge lead ingot - (with a lovely Tudor...
Some people make a living out of such................ http://www.stephensack.com/gal/mm/
I just signed a contract to print 2,000 copies of 'Early World Coins' in a Chinese translation, so I guess the answer is probably - yes............
What a strange thing! I agree it looks like one of the Sri Lankan plaques - but it also looks like a late Kushan copper. What I mean to say is -...
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