I use Renaissance Wax on coins I've treated for bronze disease. My healthy bronze coins don't get any special treatment.
Very nice!
Yes those types are genuine contemporary Roman coins, struck under Constantine I on the occasion of the dedication of his new capital city of...
Claudius will be pretty expensive too.
I don't blame you, if I had coins like those I'd be holding them in my sleep too. :p:D But seriously, wow! How often do you get coins like this...
Pretty cool!
When you think about it's pretty amazing that $10 can get you a decent, 1,700-year-old coin of Constantine the Great, but only a somewhat worn...
Nice Constantine. I like the portrait! The hole, if it detracts from the coin's aesthetic value, adds historical interest. Obviously the coin held...
Couldn't possibly be lead, could it? It's hard to judge from the pictures but it almost looks like that kind of white patina. How consistent was...
[ATTACH] Next: another LRB from Lugdunum
Marc Antony type?
Nice additions! I particularly like that Aurelian tetradrachm - for some reason, it's very difficult to find late Roman-Alexandrian tets in nice...
Yeah as much as I'd love to have that EID MAR denarius in my collection, I think I'd rather have a new house instead. ;)
I once had a coin shipped inside a small hardcover book of German poems from the early 1900's.
Wow, those are some impressive coins - especially the EID MAR!
Beautiful! I'll give you $39 for it. ;)
Very nice coin.
I suppose with that "R" right there, "replica" rather than "fake" might be more the mot juste. Hopefully, it wasn't sold as genuinely ancient.
Fake? Looks like a ® at the top of the second photo. And I agree as well it looks cast.
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