Cleaning like this is quite common. Your Akragas was also cleaned by Harlan Berk after the Lanz sale when it sold in 2012. As long as the cleaning...
Lampsakos produced one of my favorite Zeus portraits. It took me four tries to finally acquire an example of the type: the first one was fake,...
Happy birthday, Rome! [ATTACH]
I've been fortunate to add two of the major Colosseum types to my collection, the sestertius under Titus and the Gordian III medallion. There are...
That obverse metal flaw is odd. It doesn't look like mounting and NGC didn't note as such when it was slabbed (and they're particularly cautious...
Because I haven't posted it in a while, my pair of gold owls (with the full description in my thread here) - it was minted from melted down...
I'll admit this is me. I'm a minimalist person/collector and generally try to tell the broadest story in as few pieces as possible. I can...
His passing is a major loss - condolences to his family. Pegasi were one of the first dealers' tables I ever visited. At that point, I had spent...
Some of the "Zoom is malware" reporting is overblown: it requires you to click a specially crafted malicious link within a Zoom chat. Their...
I'm a firm believer that, for art, bigger isn't necessarily better. This litra is one of my most artistic coins and the engraver agreed: it has...
Congratulations! I bet you'll be stunned by it in-hand. Knowing how Roma's pictures are relative to the coins in the flesh, it'll be even more...
I think you're looking at this entirely the wrong way. CNG is offering to securely and safely hold on to your purchased coins instead of trying to...
Try using https://www.gofundme.com and, in the upper left corner, use the "Search" link to search for your city/region with "covid" (so, "Austin...
@Rich Beale , hope you're staying safe. Are you planning on holding your sale on-schedule or are you anticipating postponing it? Giuliano...
Those are indeed different collections, but great coins all around. Dr. Murray Gell-Mann was best known for coining the quark but his real...
I ate lutefisk once many years ago to impress a girlfriends' parents. The relationship ended amicably but the memory of lutefisk still haunts me...
I couldn't find my picture of this when this thread was posted some days ago but I happened to find myself in London again and dropped by the...
Wow! A die match is a remarkable find by itself for Athens tets but that's absolutely incredible to match it to your plate coin.
Lighting is everything. I took this picture just with a smartphone camera but waited until I had decent lighting conditions [ATTACH] Once you...
Here are a few prominent beards: Zeus, on a Syracuse 16 litrai: [ATTACH] Dionysis, on a Thasos hemidrachm: [ATTACH] Heracles, on a...
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