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You wanna get your coins really clean you gotta get yourself a bottle of Bubba's Butt Blaster Hot Sauce.
They were dressed up as Japanese. Sneaky buggers!
The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Dang, I had it all wrong all this time. :confused:
Yes, thank you Doug! For some reason I missed this thread. I'm glad it was bumped.
Ancient silver occasionally gets cleaned with various dilutions of vinegar or lemon juice. Sometimes the coins are even boiled. Coin soup anyone?...
Wow - very nice catch, Chris! Semunciae aren't exactly a dime-a-dozen.
I had any and all in mind - there are quite a few fascinating types from the earlier emperor's - some of my favorites are the denarii of Hadrian...
The wheat comes with the chaff. By churning out millions upon millions of coins, the Romans considerably increased the chances that many pieces...
An interesting collection would be to assemble all the different diadems from this mint. Here's a scan of the footnote on p. 538 of RIC VII......
I was digging through my gallon jar of LRB’s (you’ve all got one, right?) and came across a few fairly respectable Constantines with votum...
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Quite right. I bought something that had to be returned even though the seller said "no returns." I asked him politely at first, and when he...
Very nice. Sometimes I wonder about the relationship between the Sogdian and Nabataean civilizations. Arabian aromatics were highly prized in the...
There is a lot of crap, yes. But there are also quite a few jewels to be cherrypicked with a keen eye and some patience.
As a tangent to this conversation, we tend to think we have a huge variety of Roman types available to us as collectors, when in fact, I'm willing...
Meh...sometimes you just have to buy a coin you like. I've been told I've overpaid numerous times on various pieces, but I'm thrilled to have...
One of the nicest Byzantines I've ever seen, YOC - definitely worth incurring a wife's wrath.
I'll toss my favorite Hadrian in the ring... Roman Empire: Hadrian, 76-138 AE As: 25mm, 10.1g, 6h; Rome Mint: 132-134 Obv.: Laureate bust right,...
And you're trying to hide it in a thread full of Hadrians. ;)
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