[ATTACH] My addition to the lack of variety is the Antioch version with burning altar at her feet.
I agree with the preference for no music. I would have preferred spoken comments but the need for several languages might make that impractical....
Patina and toning are related but rather different things. Coins cleaned and placed out in the air will tone but not form a thick covering from...
This thread needs a coin picture. This is not my finest work but it is my only coin that I believe shows a human fingerprint. It is strongest at...
A major decision is just whose approval you are seeking with this collection. You are a lot better off IMHO if you worry about making yourself...
We tend to think of antiquity as what has survived but not what was. I suspect there were shopping lists scratched in wax and graffiti on many...
ΣΥΝΟΔΟΙΠΟΡΙΩΝ is fellow traveler, ΠΟLLΩΝ can mean anything from the many to the common men. I might suggest something like 'fellows and...
I believe you are a hundred times more likely to damage an ancient coin dropping it from gloved fingers than you are gripping securely with clean...
For every coin image improved in post production there are a hundred made worse by people who don't understand the controls of the camera and...
We often face the problem of what makes a good photo. Is it possible to have a photo that is too good or too accurate. It certainly is if the...
Yes, and this serves well to point out a problem with our online images. Lacking a size reference, this photo really looks like a denarius....
Exceptional coin but I probably don't want to know the price. Now you need the AMB of the same quality.
Welcome back! Good to see an 'old' friend.
Nope. All this thread did was convince me I am in the wrong hobby. As a result of my new found fear of legal action brought by underbidder and...
I do not have the Macrinus but have this pair of Diadumenians. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
For big wolves, try Provincials: Macrinus Laodicea AE29 [ATTACH] Severus Alexander Antioch AE33 [ATTACH] Maximinus Ninica Claudiopolis AE31...
Don't try to clean it. The question we all ask on a coin that is less than we might wish is whether the coin is better than the alternative of no...
gogili's "Restorer of the Human Race" is one of my favorites but from the billon period where it can be hard to find with good surfaces.
Excellent coins! Mine are the same but very different which is something I love about ancients. They can be much more individual than the...
There is quite a variety in the style and amount of the protrusions. How were the flans made? Seleukos IV AE20 [ATTACH] Antiochus IV AE14...
Separate names with a comma.
