What was the time difference between the land and sea routes to India?
That's a pity. I imagine the coin looked amazing when it was uniformly covered by horn silver.
I bought some on Amazon a few years ago and I'm sure they have more.
Can you blame them? Everybody's John Wayne/Bruce Willis/Robert Pattinson/etc. on the interwebs :)
Agree, but bullion shot up and the recent coin auction prices/activity were higher than before if I'm not mistaken. Sorry for the offtopic everyone.
My impression was that the business has been booming lately :-?
If a seller doesn't accept returns, the buyer can only open a case with eBay and claim the coin isn't as described. Whose side will eBay take if...
On two occasions I had to provide my ID for online purchases, I sent them a photo of my driver's license with the number and barcode fully or...
This is probably the one - https://www.cointalk.com/threads/horn-silver.283423/
Sure, you can remove the oxidation which will result in a pitted surface. If the surface isn't pitted, it wasn't oxidation hence not horn silver.
I'm not a chemist, but I think horn silver is an oxide and cannot flake off or be easily removed.
What a portrait! A great specimen.
Seems that the pandemic and related closures and delays resulted in quite a bit of confusion at the auction houses. I had one coin "misplaced" too...
Great news! I think mine was probably over-cleaned and re-patinated. 29mm at 14g. The patina is mostly grey-bluish that I've never seen before....
Looks like a small denomination Spanish maravedis to me too. I'd say... mid 1500-early 1600?
Thank you everyone! I'm convinced. Well, my friend has already bought it so it's a done deal (a lot of five Roman denarii, no idea for how much)....
Thank you all! I'm inclined to trust your experience, but a few questions: The marked areas in the attached pics 1 and 4 - those look like flow...
A friend asked me for help with this denarius from an estate sale lot. It came with a note "Macrinus denarius 218 with fire damage". I id-ed it as...
It definitely looks like the first emperor to me. Where's the reverse?
Is that legal in Italy? Just curious.
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