Note on the second one: base silver can get bd. The left image shows a pin point that touched the green and wiped it away in part as shown on...
My biggest problem with these scales is the matter of calibration. My two old scales came with calibration weights but these weights did not...
This is a nice one. Athenian silver appears in the catalog down to 1/8 obol but I have not seen one of these offered in the decades I have been...
Buy one that claims accuracy to .01 g. and don't count on it beyond the .1g level. I have owned two from eBay at $10 each. One was consistent...
I know nothing about modern coins and have never seen bronze disease on something that new. Does it occur? This does not look like BD.
While I certainly agree with the ten as fine choices, I can not dismiss the Corinth (but would insist on one of fine style since many are not)....
Thanks to Martin for posting the comparison image. In case someone out there misses why this is important, compare the two images of different...
[ATTACH] Steve's Aurelius drachm is 4 years younger than mine (and has a nose) but both are curly haired Caesar portraits while Pius was alive.
While I agree that many of the coins mentioned are excellent representatives of their genre, the problem is that there are more than ten major...
1. an archaic silver with punch mark reverse 2. a 5th century BC silver with two sides 3. a Classical style high art silver 4. a Greek bronze 5....
This is indeed the shame of the hobby. I can not disagree with a small, general dealer shying away from ancients. I do not believe that the...
Can someone explain how the caret system used with touchstones allows determination of the gold content by color without knowing what the other...
There are many fake uncleaned ancients but the ones I have seen have been poor style and mixed in with real but junker grade ones. These look...
UK coins are 12 o'clock so I assume Canada follows that pattern. My Bank of Upper Canada 1857 halfpenny is 5H. My 1797 Cartwheels are 6H while...
Nice coins - some exceptional. The photos are what you expect considering you are shooting through plastic and part of each coin is concealed by...
Hold the coin with obverse forward with one finger at the top and the thumb at the bottom. Spin the coin around so you see the reverse. The hour...
The point here is that an expensive coin need to bring something to the collection other than being expensive. The OP coin does that. Many are...
Mine is medal (12H) but Diocletian was not consistent on this and I have other coins of his that are coin (6H).
Is there a reason we only see one side of the coin? The style is certainly not contemporary Ptolemaic Egyptian so the idea of it being Libyan and...
There is one more piece of information I would like to see gathered. It would require someone of skill examining (photos would work) all known...
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