As far as ancient coins are concerned, I am a young numismatist and I'm 70.
Dang you-guys are scary
"Hope springs eternal"
Which metal?
Just WOW
I actually just purchased these two recently to see if I could clean them up ($1 each)[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
A wise person (wiser than me).
I can understand the OP's point. Many people on this forum have drop-dead gorgeous coins and when I look on fee-bay, I see some dreck.
Not sure if this is what you meant, but tablet computers are getting cheap as dirt. A dealer could have half a dozen of these with pics of his...
Actually just found one (fallen horseman)while cleaning my uncleaned Romans. Will post it sometime, but not in such distinguished company!
Hydrochloric acid and you are 12 years old!!! Where DO you live? Strong chemical reagents like this will etch or otherwise modify/disturb the...
Cleaning is mostly tricky and best left alone for most modern issues. The main offence you can commit in "cleaning" is to rub the coin with...
Thank you so much. I was thinking that they were just roman coins struck at provincial mints.
Scrub-a-dub!
Not to side-track anything, but what distinguishes a "provincial" from another coin?
I have found coins like that from time to time and have just assumed the coloring just came from a hard life.
Is that someone in the pictures section?
Welcome to Coin Talk. If you don't mind me asking, where are you from and what do you collect?
If I admit it took me awhile, will you still respect me : - )
Wow, a long one.
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