Careful with the lemon juice. Denarii were only about 50% silver or less during this time period. If you leave it on too long you will likely end...
I assume that nails were designed to go through wood. If you are trying to bore a hole through metal, you want a round point so that the force is...
I think you're right. Now that I look at it more closely, I don't think it's a crack but rather some kind of "wrinkle" that was probably there...
That's a strange crack on the obverse of the OP coin. It doesn't go through to the other side. I wonder how it formed. Do you think the flan was...
Doug, The detail on the obverse of the top coin is breath-taking (as is the neck). Don't ever let that coin out of your sight.
One way collectors often handle this is to list it as RIC 151, var. (mint mark), meaning the coin is a variant of RIC 151. I'd also like to point...
It does not appear to be an ancient Greek coin. I suppose it could be a heavily worn, clipped and mutilated late Roman bronze, but it's probably...
Great OP photo showing the relative sizes. I, too, have always found the FEL TEMP coins interesting. (Hence, the name of my personal web site:...
Actually, I was wondering about the marks on Herakles' cheek. So those are casting bubbles? I'd assumed that casting bubbles would be round. I...
I'm not so sure. I don't know anything about the second coin, so I'll confine my argument to the first. I think what appears to be mushy detail is...
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