@SeptimusT : What a nice coin! It was also in the Peus auction, wasn't it? I have a small theory on this but can't fully prove it: Hommel...
I can't tell you how dealers handle this issue, since I have never sold any of my coins and don't intend to do so in the future. Also, I am...
Thanks to all of you for your thought- and insightful answers and comments. Once more, I have learned something from this forum (and also smiled...
This summer, when I was visiting the Landesmuseum in Hannover, Germany, I saw that they have a small hoard of 78 Roman silver coins on display....
I wouldn't say "maybe less" but, whithout any doubt, "most definitely much less". I know about this debate, which at some point reached quite a...
Since EDTA is used for complexometric titration, something that pretty much every larger chemical laboratory does, I assume that shops for lab...
Yes, of course it is! I can't believe I wrote "Alexandrian" in my post... Full identification: Philip II, Roman Empire, provincial coin of...
I don't think so. EDTA works by "catching" and binding metal ions from metal compounds, and pure metals are not ionic. With very sensitive...
I have recently experimented a bit with using a 10% solution of dinatrium-ethylendiamine-tetraacetate (Na2H2EDTA), a salt of...
You are of course absolutely right. Also, thank you a lot for contributing the historically more reliable origin story of the devices on the...
A Roman Republican as with a Janus obverse and a prow reverse has been on my want list for quite some time, and I have been waiting for the right...
The weight range of this type appears to be rather large. Mine is 3.39g: [ATTACH]
I also did a little bit of reading and found this small article on the lion's throne in the Künker auction catalogue 130. To summarize: the motif...
This is a very nice idea! I like the thought of building a small medieval collection of all the places you visited, and wish you good luck for...
These are two very fine coins and fun write-ups – my vote is split. Thanks to both contestants for showing their coins and taking the time to tell...
The Julius Caesar fourrée is particularly nice. May I ask whether you are planning to clean it, and if so, how? Here is a Republican fourrée I...
A beautiful coin, @ominus1 ! The one-handled cup shown on almost all Hellenistic Kyme coins seems a bit mysterious. It has an atypical shape and...
Mine looks a little grumpy, likely because of either hair loss, corrosion, or a thunderstorm brewing up: [ATTACH]Carus, Roman Empire,...
@Plumbata , thank you for the nice words and for the great bullet/stater-picture! I had not known that there is a coin depicting a slinger, and...
I like the sarcastic interpretation, and δρομὰς, as an ellipsis of δρομὰς κάμηλος, can indeed mean "dromedary". Yet, if I may, I'd like to propose...
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