Baltimore? All those warehouse convention center places look the same to me.
This coin arrived today. The patina is more fissured than I expected from the seller's image, but I'm OK with that - it isn't chipping. Sometimes...
If you don't mind that sort of doctoring, the coins end up having a lot of eye appeal, at first. The problem is, the tooling typically removes the...
Yeah, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but if more of us reject these coins, perhaps we can put an end to the violence. Compare the...
I haven't seen any decent examples of any of these types for less than $15 apiece, so I would say you did very well paying $2.
Reverse looks tooled and repatinated, obverse maybe just cleaned and repatinated. The author of the site I linked says cleaning and repatination...
Yup, he's tooled and repatinated them all, or somebody has. See this site for more information... http://www.fontanillecoins.com/tooling.htm
It's a beautiful coin but I'm almost certain that desert patina is fake. It's too uniform in color, and it just happens to sit exactly where it...
I did my part - I took my wife to the Gettysburg show last year and she actually bought some coins.
How would we tell the difference?
What red_spork said. Olive oil will do nothing to cure BD.
That surface looks very suspicious. It's not the normal pattern of crystallization or porosity you see on some ancient silver. I agree that it...
Well, if you insist on slabs, that would have been a good coin to get at a fair price. It's a lovely example of the type. Just realize you are...
I took this sestertius out today, to take a picture of it with my smallest coin (in another thread), and decided to re-shoot it as well. It's my...
$65 would be the full retail cost of the coin, in my estimation. It's well-struck, no flatness, and retains most of its silvering. However, it is...
Here is my pic of this little flyspeck. I can't bring myself to post a larger image of such a tiny coin. [ATTACH] My largest/smallest duo isn't...
Just sunlight, and angling the coin till I get a good pic. I had a set-up of LED's, but it proved to be redundant.
Yes, much better. I use sunlight itself - take the camera and copy stand outside.
They style and fabric look authentic. It just got struck on a light flan.
You bet, but that's just a guess. It would be better to see a pic - when you get a chance.
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