My latest Kuenker purchase has been sitting in Frankfurt for a month now (showing as "to be forwarded to USA" Deutsche Post - DHL Paket). I'm...
Yep, it's that small. Thank you, everyone!
My only source on the Roman provincials is RPC Online unfortunately and it doesn't show any for Elagabalus or Severus Alexander. Hygaeia's arms...
OK. https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/27716 seems to be the closest if we ignore the size/weight and the lack of a wheel at Nemesis' feet. So,...
M! Right. It didn't even occur to me it wasn't a K. I wonder if it's a Nemesis on the reverse.
I'm guessing this is a Roman provincial? Nothing on the obverse except what to me looks like a late Roman looking bust and "KAP K(or R) IAN" -...
In my experience, England, France, Holland (all FedEx) and New Zealand (USPS) have been fine. Germany on the other hand...
FWIW, not Leu, but Roma. I had a problem like that in August or September so that may have been just a fluke (and I also rarely "snipe" so I can't...
I think the pink will turn to very light brown within less than several months (depending on the environment; it may even turn somewhat...
I'd be curious to see the result. PS. I wouldn't use Jax brown or the like. The coin will patinise naturally over time and that'll look better.
I'm with @seth77 - keep cleaning as long as the bare metal doesn't get worse. I'd definitely not try a wire brush even brass. Plastic/fiber.
The leftmost bronze in the first photo looks like Augustus. The top right bronze in the same photo looks like Agrippa. The last photo looks like...
@Herodotus I "like" how the forger tried to hide the missing parts of the bull.
Thank you, @dltsrq !
I'm having trouble finding a match for this coin from an uncleaned batch that's been soaking for a year now. DN CONSTAN-TIVS PF AVG,...
Who here wouldn't...
Josiah Ober's The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece is a great book on the topic of the genesis of democracy (and more).
I haven't experienced that myself and it wasn't related to numismatics, but I've seen complaints online that sellers would refuse to do future...
Supposedly. His cognomen 'Ahenobarbus' literally means 'copper/bronze colored beard'. PS. Most of those 'reconstructions' make no sense to me...
@Denis Richard The date on the Dioscuri photo should probably be 211 BC?
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