XRF doesn't seem "primitive" to me. The equipment costs $17,000. 0% of numismatic catalogs include elemental analysis as of 2021. I walked down...
Don't have Pacatian but have his empress: [ATTACH]
Why so sure? I believe NGC sometimes runs the analysis to make the authenticity determination. NGC (modern) will do metallic analysis and put...
Zeno has a category for Nuh III b. Mansur multiple dirhams, https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=4662 There are 84 coins on that page. Many...
While we are on the subject of Samanid bronze allow me to mention a puzzle. Here are two falus, dated just a year apart: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Both...
Is there a guide that helps to identify the caliph and mint city of multiple dirhams for non-Arabic readers? I have been unable to identify this:...
ANS http://numismatics.org/collection/1895.33.4 http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.40369 http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.40370...
Does NGC search your pockets on the way out?
Not all dealers on eBay can recognize a fake patina. Email a post-acetone photo and suggest to the dealer that a supplier may be painting coins.
Second one matches https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=341302
@pprp @DonnaML @Meander Are we sure the top coin was de Luynes'? His catalog, written by Babelon, had an example but it wasn't this one....
The ISEGRIM people have a new forms-based interface at http://isegrim.dasr.de/isegrim_neu/test2014.php . (Mine version depended on their original...
Happy Halloween. Here is a strange pair: [IMG] Human-headed sandworm with [ATTACH] "Mistress of animals" Potnia Theron [ATTACH] LYDIA,...
I want to give a shout-out to a coin that I bid for unsuccessfully....
This coin took me 10 years to attribute: [ATTACH] Moesia Inferior, Tomi. Nerva (96-98 AD), AE16 (2.91g). Obv: [ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤωΡ Ν]ΕΡΟΥΑ; laureate head...
C.T.B.H. [ATTACH] Kashmir, Lohara dynasty, Jagadeva 1198-1213 AD, bronze 6.0g AE18.5 obv: Ardoxsho=Lakshmi; Nagari legend: 'Ja' left and 'Ga'...
[ATTACH] Indonesia, Java, Majapahit kingdom, AR massa, 1293-1520 AD, 2.07g, 12.5mm Obv?: Incused Sandalwood flower Rev?: Nagari letter? cf....
Here is a Phoenician coin with an "L" that looks like <: https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=84727
The JHS article on this, from 120 years ago, can be read at https://archive.org/details/journalofhelleni22soci/page/149/mode/2up or...
It's not Lambda, it looks like the Latin letter L. On some Phoenician coins it looks like <. More then 100 years ago Barclay Head wrote: "The...
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