Holy crud, another note with the Sept 27 birthday, (same as mine)? Weird. I had no idea Steve Kerr or Gwenneth Paltrow shared my birthday. :)
Someone paid way too much to buy something off of tv or from the back of a cheap magazine is what it is. Keep it as a curiousity OP but it has no...
Its sad how the bullion market specifically, and the coin market generally, seems to attract shady dealers. It always has. Maybe its a function of...
I think of the nickels any time I see any buffalo, (bison). :) Heck, any time I read about any history, US Civil war, war of the roses, Roman, I...
I took it more that the TPG did not think they belong in, in their view, "clean" slabs.
I agree. From my own experience, I use the handy tools Thad provides to try to remove the worst of it, then apply VC to the coin. I let it sit for...
Would verdicare remove the corrosion from this coin?
Does it? If most collectors of these are in or support EAC grading standards, what does it matter what a TPG say about the matter? Its the same in...
Verdigris is usually light powdery green. It wouldn't hurt to treat it, but I am unsure if its verdigris at all. Btw, pm @BadThad, he would have...
The OP coin looks like an average byzantine piece. :)
I would agree. Most who love early cents have the same love for slabs as ancient collectors, that is none. If I were still collecting US coins I...
Wow, I know they need to take artistic license, but if that is in proper proportion to the horse, what is that? A 50 pound rat? Maybe they grew...
Are we sure its not something like a game piece or something? I have seen bad imitations made for games that were never meant to fool anyone.
As an update, I bought another one of these: [ATTACH] It occurred to me where I have seen this scene before: [ATTACH] This is a Phoenician...
THESE cast coins will never have the sharp features of a struck coin due to how they were cast. Cast coins can have incredibly sharp and intricate...
I agree. I love the lighthouse page. Unfortunately I have only three so far, but a great resource. I have never seen so many pharos coins together...
Yeah, of course I have seen such toning. I have coins in junk rolls that look like that. Many of those Whitman folders were put together in the...
I didn't comment on the other thread. That silver bar would not be for me though. Regarding this bar, its not the bar itself, it's the...
One, the former mint director should be ashamed. While they never actually cross the line, in sum total I believe they are crossing the line to...
Good point about the geography Doug. Ustrushana was an eastern portion of what I would call "Sogdia". It was to the east of Samarkand and Bukhara....
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