I would contact Badthad and get a bottle of verdicare. Seems to work with my coins with BD.
Bluntly put, they have all been cleaned. Ancient gold does not necessarily have to be cleaned, but other metals do. Look up "horn silver" and see...
I am not one being asked to comment on coins, but I was asked concerning books. I couldn't volunteer, but after a few comments I was asked to...
Mike is giving you good advice. Especially on the bullion forum, you need to toughen up some. I miss Ruben, but he was one you REALLY had to get...
Bukhara from around the 7th-8th century. "Turco-Hepthalite" is a guess, since we are not sure who ruled this town then. We know the Hepthalites...
Yep. I do not collect ultra modern coins, so even my KM phonebooks are ten years old and I do not care. Whenever there is a new edition of a book...
You will usually find books on GB coins going back to around the time of the Norman invasion. Anything earlier than that and it becomes more of a...
GB has their own versions of the US Redbook. There are a couple actually. They are published annually. Coincraft is one I own I believe.
I find it about 50/50 for me Doug, meaning half I preferred the upper photo, half the lower. The Gratian is the worst of the lower photos, and the...
Nice pickup. I started in on Seleukid coins years ago, got sidetracked by the breakaway kingdoms in central asia, and kind of never got back to them.
Oh yeah. Why do you think Peter moved us to our own little dark corner. It wasn't for our benefit, it was to keep us away from the civilized...
I can't quite tell. Is this one of those that was printed with an ink jet printer? I remember a year ago or more a good diagnostic of the slab was...
I think its a good topic as well. I do believe way too many people do not understand why a dealer offers what they do, and if you understand that...
Any chance of Azileses? But yeah, Indo-scythian and not Kushan. Btw, did you notice the horse's head? Doesn't that look a little strage? I have...
My crystal ball is on the fritz, but my guess would be the Fed would slow down buying without telling anyone after that last fiasco, and interest...
True, I was assuming the fact long term pm should rise with inflation, so long term the expected price should always be up. I use dca more for...
Not bad, though I doubt the Carolinginians nor the Merovinginians really called them English pennies. :)
I would think, regarding the penny: 1. You should explain early pennies were silver. 2. The term "penny" is from the German "pfenning" 3. Its...
I agree. I also agree with Green, I think these coins are best called PL, which is a pretty well understood term in numismatics.
Lol, is this Doug's Rorshack test? Personally I see the giraffe, but also see a person sitting just to the right of the square hole. :)
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