I dunno, I don't find that this type of toning is hard to photograph. It's just, I think, rare to find it so strong. This is pretty common with...
[ATTACH] Just got this in the mail and loving that iridiscent toning. Would like to see other members' coins with standout patinas! Rasiel
Unfortunately, this is all a wasted effort along the lines of preaching to the choir. The issue transcends technicalities. It is political. The...
That does look really cool, have to admit! I once walked on the flattest, most featureless surface on the earth, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia,...
Thanks for the kind words. The references aren't the problem. It's that the bronzes are usually too far gone to identify. Even when you come...
It's practically impossible to say without the legend. Finding a die match with a more readable portion of the obverse legend would be the one way...
I must be late to the party.... who in the holy heck is this BCD?! Or is it a coin firm?
You owe Barry a beer not just for spotting it but tracing the origin coin too. Well done! A found a couple other ones which are more obviously...
Those really are a mess but first two look like Constantius II; top a SPES REIPVBLICAE and bottom a Fel temp
I think maybe you guys misunderstood my feelings about the internet and so on. I'm about as hooked-in to the digital age as any millennial and see...
Yeah, I'd rather pull my hair out thank you! (but glad there are enough people dedicated to decoding this for the benefit of others) User...
I didn't know my blog post was being discussed here and just a few minutes ago I posted the link in another thread unaware of this one. Anyway,...
Well, call me selfish but whatever coins from my collection I don't sell will literally go in my grave. Which will be somewhere in northern...
I take a deep, deeep bow. Not an easy one to score and even less so in such a fine grade. Wow! Do you collect by monarch? I'd love to see other...
Funny that you came up with 200 as an arbitrary number. That just happens to be the Roman imperial set from Augustus to Romulus Augustus (my...
You gotta admit it's clear someone took a lot of effort and time in making this prop. They could have just tooled a real coin. It actually looks...
[ATTACH] Enjoy this, the only known coin explicitly naming Caligula. Reverse type is a spintria motif. Too naughty to post here. From the...
That's probably true Jeff. I didn't consider the possibility of intentionally trying to tone a silver coin inside a slab but there's probably...
Generally speaking, silver toning is due to the chemical reaction with ambient sulfur and not atmospheric oxygen. Plastic is an effective barrier...
Well, in most cases here I think it's fair to say that ebay was the site where the coins were bought and will someday be sold. That's the great...
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