Excellent, all of them! Sigh. Now I want to complete the "set". :D
It's very nice, but I have a fondness for the coins of Roman Egypt and I don't have that particular coin :)
Good, because I like the second. @Ken Dorney , you can send the first coin to Bing and the second to me :D
If you can't find ready-made sodium sesquicarbonate, you can approximate it by mixing baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) with washing soda (sodium...
The bright green stuff on one of those coins looks like bronze disease. See the paper linked above for treatment information.
Charles, go to Wildwinds -> Greek coins -> use the drop-down menus to access the pages for the Seleukid Kings (Seleukos I, etc). Scroll through...
I'm in :)
Well said!
It's a .pdf document. Perhaps it it just taking a long time to load. In addition to being very explicit and thorough, the author has a great...
Here's the most comprehensive ancient coin cleaning writeup I've seen.
I clicked "like" not because I like what happened to you, your family, and your coins but because I like that you are taking the time to share...
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Clearly AJ is in denial, since archaics comprise ~16% of his collection. :D
That's some mighty fine artistry for an archaic! Some of my archaics: [IMG] KARIA, Kindya 510-480 BCE AR tetrobol, 2.18 gm, 11 mm, Samian...
I'd prefer none of the auction houses to show bidder handles! That way I wouldn't have to know. I do try to stay away from forum friends' coins...
Oh how painful! They're all wonderful but that Ptolemy I satrapal tetradrachm is a stunner.
"New style" Athens tetradrachm. Better images, weight, and diameter are needed to help authenticity but from what I can see it appears to be...
Boy, that's a tough quiz. Without yet resorting to Google or books-- and I probably won't do so later-- I could only answer five of the first two...
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Resources: Barry Murphy's pages on the these Thracian Cherronesos hemidrachms I think the OP coin reverse has a pellet//ivy leaf (BMC Thrace pg....
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