Gavin, I suspect that you will soon be followed by thousands of other selfie-takers after DIG.... SC
I like the Beba boxes (I have four, two of ten-drawer and two eight-drawer) but find they are almost unknown in North America. Not sure why....
Possibly olive oil, as was used in household lamps, with the use of a reflector? SC
Beautiful items! Fabulous. Were the beads part of the same find?? The item on bottom left is likely a belt strap end, likely matching the...
Did. A couple years back. Stunning book if you are a hard-core sci-fi fan. Any attempt to describe it - "space spiders" etc - sounds lame and...
My first thought is that it was acid cleaned. What remains includes remnants of corrosion products. SC
In fact, the rarer and more valuable the LRB, the more likely it is radioactive. So send you best coins to Victor first!! [joke! - unless I get...
It doesn't take much iron (or, less likely in ancients, nickel) for a coin to respond to a magnet, especially a powerful magnet. It is quite...
A coins colour today will be based on: Original metal alloy + burial condition (soil, water, adjacent chemicals) + cleaning methods used + (if...
Thanks for the link Tejas. From 2005-2015 two or three dealers each week at the giant outdoor Nashmarkt flea market in Vienna would be selling...
The done in "classical style" its design and style details would appear 19th-20th century. SC
Fascinating coin. What you actually likely have is an example that was not struck with sufficient force. The metal was not driven into key high...
Stylistically it appears fine. But I agree with seth77's tooling concerns. While it is fiendishly difficult to tell from a photo, the beard,...
I am with Orielensis. Trays and hand written tags. Several years ago my daughter bought me a quill pen and ink vial and I have been using that...
I got my first Kanei Tsuho in a group of 100 "Chinese coins". Turned out that in addition to the one Japanese there were half a dozen Vietnamese...
Might be a lot later than Indo-Greek. Perhaps Arabic writing on the obverse and a form the Ujjain symbol on the reverse. SC
Though I have some nice pieces, my collection is more quantity over quality. Some small Roman bronze statuettes and fragments. [ATTACH]...
If I recall correctly, the term limes falsa is used for cast copies - either base metal cast copies of denarii or casts of large copper-alloy...
BJBII, Your coin is a Japanese Kanei Tsuho coin. The mark on the reverse is Bun, indicating the Kanbun era. This coin in particular was most...
Military commanders were certainly never allowed to strike their own coinage. And in most cases were likely not allowed to create any coinage....
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