No, the weight isn't weird. It's an AE2 size. They had a short run until the coins shrank to AE3. But I believe they are both called a...
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Are you surfing those sites again, Bing? :smuggrin:
Lol. You know, ancient coins used to be considerably bigger when they were made because homo sapiens was considerably smaller. All the advances of...
They started out large, but quickly shrunk. Inflation, cost of bronze, etc. But yes, it's called a centenionalis.
No! I'm no expert. You just happened to post a coin I could read. :)
The problem is that it isn't just Greek. It's a mishmash of Greek and Roman alphabets, that varies from one province to another, and if that...
It's about a $50 - $75 coin in that grade.
I think your best lighting scheme is on the 1900-O, which I've processed the same way... [ATTACH] There could be a little more light coming...
The legend on the obverse clearly reads ΓOPΔIANOC - Gordian III. It's a provincial issue of the Singara mint, Mesopotamia. A scarce coin....
Here are both sides of your 1879S processed into one image. It may be a bit dark. I don't know what the original coin looks like. The goal of my...
The rarest mule of them all is Constantinople with VOT XX MVLT XXX reverse.
Under the Adjustments button, select Curves from the drop-down menu. [ATTACH] Select RGB in the Transfer Map dialog. [ATTACH] Deselect Green...
Attribution looks good to me. This a scarce type, the muling of Constantinople and Soldiers/Standard. Nice find. The bust looks barbarous, but the...
If you're using a combination of halogen, fluorescent, and LED's, it's going to confuse the heck out of automatic white balance settings. See if...
Hey Doug. For one thing, attaching your pics to posts as media is weird. Just use the "Upload a File" button at the bottom of the reply dialogue....
Lovely coins, spork. Everybody loves the big pond-skippers, but we forget there is a world of fascinating coins in the smaller denominations. I...
Lemon juice diluted in water is sometimes used to clean ancient silver. It's particularly useful in removing spotty toning, applied topically with...
I hope you've been keeping up with your harp lessons.
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