That's a really well preserved example David.
Further to what I wrote above about cleaning: The things I describe are only suitable in my experience for the kinds of coins you get from...
Using wooden toothpicks, and Andre's Pencils, along with cotton buds, distilled water and a magnifier. For coins with good patina and where the...
This looks fascinating, particularly the sections on silver and gold mining and flan production.
A couple of days ago I was doing my usual trawl through the many pages of coins on ebay, and came across an entry for a coin of Allectus, a person...
Some really nice examples everyone, thanks for sharing.
I've been called worse haha
@zumbly the portrait styles of the unmarked unreduced London issues are all over the shop in style. The Cloke and Toone book and the people who've...
I've been working on a spreadsheet of the London mint types covered by Cloke and Toone's London Mint of Constantius and Constantine to keep track...
[ATTACH] LMCC 3.01.031 MAXIMIANVS NOBIL C GENIO POPVLI ROMANI 27mm, 10.72g, 303-305 AD London, -/-//- I've been collecting London coins since...
Excellent and informative thread, thanks all. Also Donna, that's a really attractive coin. What a distinguished portrait!
Sounds like another seller to add to the naughty list.
Cracking write up and coin, thanks. Also, that bronze statue is simply incredible.
Excellent write up, thanks. I know so little of this era of history that I hadn't equated the Mamluk servants of the great Harun al-Rashid that I...
If it is any consolation, I would have been fooled by that one as well. It sounds like you are being incredibly hard on yourself for no reason....
Very nice. You've done a good job cleaning it up too. As the current custodian of your lost coin, I hadn't realised that it was a regret that you...
I find the new coin to be of a better style and I would have picked it as a matter of preference, but the older coin is also a beautiful example.
I've been reading Gibbon's Decline of the Roman Empire, just half way through the second volume towards the end of the reign of Constantius II. I...
It was the first set of books I tried reading about the ancient world, and I knew so little at that time that I lost interest with the parade of...
What a historic and interesting coin, thanks for the write up. I am very unclear about the events surrounding this time period, but I'm having...
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