Wow! Someone went to a lot of trouble with those two coins. It looks like the same treatment was done on the reverse of the second coin. The...
That's a really nice early thaler of Fredinand!
Here's an interesting short article from today's Guardian....
I was pawing through the owls today and pulled out this interesting imitative owl that I purchased from a dealer in Prague, Czech Republic, about...
This coin actually does have traces of bronze disease, mostly eradicated now during treatment. The spot were to the right along the edge of the...
Yes, it could be corrosion, but my experience with corrosion is that the resulting surface is usually pitted and rough. This example shows gouge...
Here's a coin that I thought I still owned, but could not locate. Eventually it was found in a bag with a bunch of world coins, great...
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