Welcome to CoinTalk, @Michael Stolt! Glad you joined us-- looks like you had a great 2018 :).
If it can be easily disabled, great. If not, there is another very simple solution. A moderator has to review and authorize the nominated Best...
Great thread but once again I take issue with the whole concept of a "Best Answer" notation when there the OP didn't even ask a question! The...
What a fantastic experience! Congratulations on acquiring a coin which gives you such enjoyment :).
I wouldn't for the many reasons others have already stated.
The style is wrong. It resembles these replicas, whose style is also wrong: http://rg.ancients.info/medusa/replicas.html
That is one of my favorite threads on FAC :). It is impressive in scope. Here's the link, for others who may want to take a look: "Coins of...
Ed, thanks for that archived link and for your multitude of other helpful posts. You are such an asset to CoinTalk! :)
Another fabulous post! Thanks, Jochen :).
Fantastic coin, @Jochen! Thanks for the additional information. I see that you first posted it on FAC (the visual cacophony of hyperlinked words...
There are other lists of known fakes sellers and other information a newcomer will find helpful:...
That is hilarious! I'm going to have to use that line sometime. No one else will understand it but I'll laugh :D.
I haven't spent much time judging the Diodochi on their historical merits but instead choose them by the beauty or interestingness of their coins....
Gawd, I didn't even notice that you already posted the ACCLA link. I skipped straight to your pictures :oops: :sorry:.
Tarn-X is thiourea and sulfamic acid. It is used for cleaning silver, not bronze. I'm not sure if people use it on ancient silver coins but it...
Since this is a featured thread and might be bookmarked by many people, I'm going to add other frequently cited links about bronze disease and its...
@Theodosius, can you give us the correct way to make sodium sesquicarbonate? My understanding is that you can approximate it from a mixture of...
Maybe it's a cult statue of Artemis; all the little dots are her breasts. If that is the case it is more squat than usual. I haven't found it...
No.
Hmm. That flan is very... weird. The dotted border is blurred together into a nearly solid line. Very odd and suspicious :(. Edited to add...
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