About six pounds, if I recall correctly. But the large cent date set on the back counterbalanced it nicely, so it felt just like a normal garment...
Nice silvering on that Aurelian ant in the OP, and I like the round flan and surfaces and die break on the SevAlex sestertius. Here's a Claudius...
Back to the Holey Coin Vest for a solution. I was shut out for a while, since the coins in play were too modern for the stuff I have photos of,...
I figured that HAD to be a replica. But it also must've been a real adrenaline rush for the person who found it like that!
@jtlee321 - you certainly get a lot of bang for the buck! Of course, being a whiz-bang master of coin photography doesn't hurt either, when it...
With only a hundred bucks, I'd buy the coolest love tokens or hobo carvings I could find, and know that I had bought something truly unique that...
Not even close to AU, but decent coins, certainly for melt value.
Fantastic. November of 2013 happens to have been the very month I was on my detecting trip in the UK. Hoard provenance in a collection is always...
They're almost like Celtic coins with the addition of symmetry.
... and the Crabby Critter Coin. [IMG]
Oh yeah- my "bargain" JC. [IMG]
@Roman Collector - I really like the appearance of that Faustina sestertius. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
What LaCointessa said.
So was I. :P
The NZ 6d doesn't really need acetone in my opinion (though that wouldn't harm it). It's just darker because it's of a .500 silver composition....
After a few years of bulk bag cherrypicking world coin lots, I evolved my own set of extremely basic standards which can be used as a general rule...
All three of those look like strong VFs to me. The first (Peruvian) coin looks borderline XF.
@stevex6- I totally LOVE that last photo. ROFL [IMG]
What I've learned so far from listening to the audiobook of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: You shouldn't get all crazy about supporting either the...
I heard a similar "I shined it up for you" kind of story from a dealer friend. Apparently this happened just before the coin in question was...
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