Bummer! For a silver coin, the metal over hundreds or thousands of years becomes crystalized in certain environmental settings, especially in the...
I think the coin is genuine, but with some corrosion, resulting in some weight loss. The denticles are clear, the portrait, shield style and...
Interesting! Really nice toning on the reverse and nicely struck.
Yes, prices for Japanese coins, especially rare coins, have shot up. I was lucky to buy the koban about 20 years ago, from a World-wide Coins of...
Sweden, 1562 1 ½ Mark - Erik XIV ex. Henry Christensen [ATTACH]
Wow! Those are beautiful pre-Meiji coins! Did they come out of an auction? I only have one pre-Meiji gold coin that I've posted before, a Bunsei...
Yes, I agree that an over strike is not likely. The reverse shows absolutely no signs of another coin's design. The coin is something of an...
That's a beautiful coin! I love the style and the centering.
Thanks. Stylistically I compared my coin to the Ptolemy I tets online. Like your Ptolemy I tetradrachm, the portrait is different, compared to...
Nice coins! Yes, the heft of a large bronze coin, be it a sestertius, Ptolemaic "hockey puck" or a cast Roman Republic bronze, provides a...
This coin just arrived today. It is a tetradrachm of, I believe, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, Alexandria. While I have seen numerous tetradrachms of...
Somewhat out-of-round. [ATTACH] Next: Another odd-shaped flan.
Antiochus VIII Sidetes, tetradrachm, Tyre, 130-129 BC [ATTACH] Next: A large Seleucid bronze.
I know that one factor in determining the authenticity of an object such as the one unearthed in Gaza is weathering of the surface. When an...
From CNN. More archeological news, this time from Gaza. https://www.cnn.com/style/article/gaza-canaanite-goddess-statue-scli-intl-scn/index.html
Hesse-Kassel (Germany) [ATTACH]
The coin looks as if it was improperly cleaned, removing much of the original surface. Perhaps there was bronze disease, or maybe the rough dark...
The detecting and enforcing mechanism for antiquities, including coins, from Afghanistan and other countries with MOUs with the US is the CBP,...
I just came across this short article from NPR. https://www.npr.org/2022/04/25/1094730176/ancient-egypt-temple-zeus-archaeology
Here's a coin that demonstrates how a western-based mythological figure, the centaur, migrated into eastern coinage, in this case Turkoman, the...
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