I find horn silver pretty stable. Once a coin is removed from the environmental factors that created the horn silver, I have found little change...
That tooling job really exaggerated her overbite!
That sounds like a good project for a history sleuth, maybe even for an episode of Secrets of the Dead on PBS. It also reminds me of the...
My sister and brother-in-law have a flat in London, near the Heath, so I know about the housing situation in that city.
I would say that there's a 99.9999999999% chance that they will snag someone straight out of university or from another museum. These folks are...
Plus by brother-in-law, who's an Aussie. Can't get much more international than that!
Actually I would use that as the clincher at the interview, presenting that impressive number on the back of a napkin, pulling it out of my...
Got this one in the bag. Let's see, high school term paper, employee of the year - coffee break, a transcript of my ten days in law school, a...
Thank you for the clarification. Wow, tough ending for that town!
"Crowning glory" it is indeed! A wonderful solidus! A nice follis and nummus as well.
My very first coin purchased was a Morgan dollar, at a coin shop in Dearborn, Michigan back in the mid-70s. That coin is long gone, so I cannot...
I do have other coins that fall within the Baroque period, a period marked by the emergence of what we recognize as the modern nation-state. It...
Go for it!
Pretty sure that's an eastern imitation owl. Nice coin!
Absolutely spectacular!
17.15 grams [ATTACH] 16.60 grams [ATTACH] [IMG]
Sorry, the first line of your post skipping by me. That's a nice, bold countermark.
Now that is a very interesting countermark and history! It would have slipped by me, with my extremely rudimentary knowledge of Aramaic and...
Going way out on a limb, could it be possibility that the circular, concentric designs on my follis, as well as the folles of ACH and Orange...
Yes, there are similarities with the reverses of the two folles. My coin is quite encrusted, so I cannot make a definitive die match. I like the...
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