OMG, that is so me.
Amen!
Fun!
Practice and/or patience makes perfect. Sometimes it's just difficult.
Here is a Galba LIBERTAS sestertius I used to own. A bit porous, but a big, fat sestertius of a Civil War emperor for only 300 bucks sounded good...
A very handsome coin, and I like the contrasting toning. I like the coins of Galba in general.
A ball peen hammer does the job nicely. LOL j/k ;) I usually put a piece of cloth or paper towel over the coin so as not to fingerprint it....
Not NGC, that's for sure!
Oops.
Here’s a Roman As of the emperor Claudius, ca. 41-54 AD. CircCam patina! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Shown w/US cent for scale [ATTACH]
Here's the 20c piece. I look forward to seeing these coins together in my own photos. Hopefully with uniform lighting, etc., they'll match a bit...
That's as perfect a CircCam SLQ as I've ever seen. You'll be looking a long time to find one better than that. John, aka @CircCam, used to have...
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Here's the other dollar. Next, the 20-cent piece, to get the tougher stuff out of the way first, and it should be all downhill from there with...
The date is the entire legend on the lower half of the obverse. It is spelled out longhand, in Spanish: UN MIL N[OVOCIE]NTOS VEINTISEIS. In...
Yep.
What he said! Sharp!
Interesting! I think you may be right that it's not PMD, maybe.
Splendid! And the old provenance, all the better!
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