I, too, like green patinas but often have to face the fact that it is extremely unusual to get a perfectly even green with smooth surfaces without...
By my definition this is Early (earliest?) Modern and Milled. I tend to separate medieval and modern coins more by their methods of production...
Small world: On CT 'areich' is Amanda from Brooklyn while on Forvm Ancients 'areich' is Andreas from Germany (and one of their most prolific...
This statement can only come when someone thinks what goes for one ancient people is true for all ancient people. Some ancients were all about...
I consider anything that shows an interest in antiquity by later people (Victorians are most common) to be most interesting and worth collecting....
England? I know almost nothing about modern coins but doesn't the coin read Portugal?
I'd soak the Siscia in distilled water and see if I could loosen the deposits at 2 o'clock on the reverse.
If you list this as Constantine III you will get many chuckles and no satisfied customers. Constantine I coins with an illegible mint mark sell...
Technically this thread was started to show the nicest ancients and some of us showed our favorites. Then someone said that ancients were trash...
[ATTACH] Were, some still are.
Housecats? I don't know. There are ancients with big cats like panthers but most common are lions. I have a page with some lions but will stick...
The last I bought at a coin show from a supplies dealer but they are also sold by several online supplies dealers. There are several of them. By...
If I may interrupt the bickering, I still prefer the theory that the heads are the rising and setting sun but do recognize that some feel Castor...
THIS shrikes me as weird. The museum link identifies the coin to the dates 668-685 AD which would make it Constantine IV but they do not bother...
http://www.penn.museum/collections/search.php?term=coin&submit_term=Submit+Query&images=yes I was hoping to see dozens of quality coins but the...
I find interesting the fact that any example of the modern coins shown will do to represent their type but many of the ancients shown were not...
Several are fakes; one is badly tooled. Use this video as a 'quiz' to spot the good and the bad. Hint: Buy coins from a trusted source who...
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/s/silver_decadrachm.aspx Above is my favorite but it currently resides in...
I prefer open trays but when your collection gets large enough that it does not fit in a reasonable bank box it makes sense to put the coins in...
The above post says all that needed to be said. Thank you Mat.
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