Then, I second the distilled water/gentle mechanical scrubbing approach. I think everything else will change the patina color.
By cleaning, do you mean getting rid of the brown incrustations?
It does look like the Tatius' characteristic "pompadour" to me, but I'm not sure if I'm seeing Tarpeia under shields or the Romans carrying...
@DEA I read that feature was added to hide potentially embarrassing items in the buyer's history, but whenever I saw a private listing, the seller...
@ernstk I'm quite sure this vitriol is unwarranted. It's not like you _deserve_ to win an auction just by wanting the coin. You deserve to win by...
You do know that Quran was written several hundred years after the Hebrew Bible, right? Not to mention that Arabic and Hebrew are both Semitic...
A casual counterfeiter won't have the skill or the equipment to use these "secrets". A professional counterfeiter knows them better than we do....
I remember reading positive reviews of using deionized water (it should work better than distilled since it has almost all minerals removed) until...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] 12.1g and 26mm. I can read the reverse - MHTΡOΠ KAICAΡEI, ETZ in exergue, so it's Cappadocia, Caesarea, but I'm not sure about...
We're going way off-topic, but China's economical system is quite capitalistic (in some respects even more so than in the US), but it's tightly...
Believe me it's beautiful to me. I'm just referring to the folks who can't stand a spot or a scratch on their coin. I actually thought of that,...
I don't think they do...
The recent "horn silver" thread reminded me once again that the beauty was in the eye of the beholder. So let's share the "uglies" that we'll...
Hooh boy. This is gonna get ugly, isn't it? :)
I know nothing about these, but it's obviously Louis XVI so the late 18th century. I'd start with that.
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Here's the most obvious example of horn silver I have - [ATTACH] [ATTACH] - and I actually think that it looks great. Too bad the reverse is...
100% agree. That's thousands of years "personified". I hope I can find one like this some day.
Albeit initially skeptical, after reading all the comments, my current opinion changed to that it is indeed horn silver.
I kind of share the sentiment, but I don't think that's possible in any aspect - legal, technical or even theoretical if you think about it in depth.
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