A coin struck with dies on a cast flan is called 'Cast'. Cast coins were made by pouring molten metal into a mold (probably fine sand). The...
Aes Rude, Aes Grave sextans, struck uncia, struck as (sextantal series), struck as (later) These are all of my Republican bronzes. I always...
http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=40416 You had us at the gob of glue.
The misspelled title was edited. Thank you.
BTW, I have no idea how I got the 'ci' on the end of India but can't find a way to edit the title so I guess I'm stuck with it unless a moderator...
http://www.delanceyplace.com/index.php Each day I get an email with an excerpt from a book selected to remind me how little (occasionally how...
I failed and this is an example of why I get burned out on Chinese coins because I do not read the language. Looking at the top and bottom...
Part of the appeal of this coin is the format which approaches a 'moving picture'. The reverse details are shown twice. Noah and his wife are...
http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=429281 I have to wonder why they didn't go ahead and fill the holes but that would have caused more...
While I can not speak for others, I believe the problem I have had every time I start to get interested in cash is that I run across situations...
The only thing wrong with the map is that it is 300 years older than the coin. We need a historical atlas that updates as lands changed hands to...
Thanks for the reviews. Since I started this, I changed my set up to be somewhere between these two. It gets depressing that all coins look...
A lot of the study of history is either guesswork or dealing with someone with an ax to grind and unwilling to admit that many 'facts' are...
Billon should not have 'breaks'. It can be a uniform mixture of metals of which a minor part may be silver. Sometimes you see them poorly mixed...
A point for those like me: If the values are not accurate (I agree that no '...and their values' book can be accurate) and if we don't care about...
I was expecting someone to dislike the Gratian as much as I did so I made a minor adjustment in the lighting and tried again. Yes, Steve, tooling...
Today I played with the latest effort to find lighting that will work reasonably well with more coins rather than having to customize what I do...
Enjoy Rome as a tourist. Shop for coins when you return.
I am no chemist but suggest if it does not pry off, leave it alone. Removing it will more likely make it look worse. We ruin coins with bronze...
Not Baaaad! This is one I would love to have.
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