You could try to send your photos to Joe Lang of Steve Album Coins. He could give you some idea about this bar. Joe is a leading authority on...
Looks okay to me and the weight is correct.
I don't know much about Byzantine antiquities, but you might post this cross on Numis Forums, antiquities for opinions. Is Biga a reliable source...
I think the OP coin is fake, without a doubt - wrong style, bad style. If Empress Anna Ivanovna saw something like that coin, the maker would...
Personally I find the Nazi swastika a repugnant symbol, as do the vast majority of people around the globe. Understanding the historical context...
Nice coin! It looks fine to me. Weight information would be helpful, but I'm sure it is not a fourrée. What date did Savaco assign to this...
Mexico, 8 reales, Republic, 1848 CE, Culiacan. KM 377.3 27.08 grams Rare [ATTACH]
I think given the time and expense I wouldn't send this coin to NGC. This is a very crude coin, which happens often with coins from this...
Interesting coin. I must say that the "III" that would apply to Charles III (1759-1788) of Spain doesn't make sense combined with at date of 1813...
You need to be very careful using naval jelly. It contains sulfuric acid and should be treated as a "last resort" treatment. Long soaks in...
Wonderful article and coins! I only have one camel on a coin of Trajan. Were it not for this coin I'd be over a hump as far as camels are...
Perhaps. I think that the primary reason for their existence was to let other merchants, bankers and other individuals that by placing a...
Chopmarks are punched into the coin. They are part of a practice that goes back thousands of years, as a main method of verifying that a coin...
Sometimes coins are found with letters in the legend or elsewhere transposed, switched in position to the next letter. This coin however is a...
Chopmarks are countermarks administered with very small dies by hammering the merchant's mark into the coin. The types of chopmarks vary from...
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This very dark salvaged cob came to me by that vast market for coins, the wild west so to speak, eBay, last month. As these coins go it is pretty...
The metal that was used in Rome in imperial times was orichalcum, what we call brass, which is composed of a combination of copper and zinc....
I really like the depiction of Asclepius on the reverse, and the portrait of Caracalla, in what appears to be in one of his more mellow moods, is...
I wouldn't go much further cleaning this coin. Additional cleaning would eliminate more of the dark deposit, but it will also reduce contrast....
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