Yeah, I'm still waiting for the 2021 Ancients Red Book :)
Yeah, my cheapo scale requires a 200.00 g calibration weight. I just took a clean widemouth bottle and put it and the lid on a balance that...
I would, if it cost you a quarter. When the dies are installed in the presses, if one or the other is loose, it moves during the strike and the...
Wow, Edward VIII and George VI really look alike.
氢氧化钠 :)
Being familiar with a range of chemicals, there are very few you can't handle safely with bare hands as long as you are careful and remember to...
Lye is the common name for Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) and caustic lye is Potassium hydroxide (KOH) Oops, I'll correct myself, lye or caustic soda is...
That thin copper shell gives rise to many anomalies and bubbles.
I shamefacedly admit to being hasty...
Point well taken but lemon juice is a very weak acid and I think the ascorbic and citric acids serve as chelating agents that will remove some...
Forgive the snark, one of my worst habits.
My graduate school GO DOGS
Not many ancient coins have any luster (at least as I understand luster) left, and if you have to do any cleaning at all, anything other than...
I think I have...
Like the eagle, would also like to know the emperor...
Very granular look.
Were the little red marks on the first picture supposed to show where you wanted us to look? It's much easier if you say what you think you see...
How about "Art Object" or "Metal Stamping"?
From what I can see he has a die chip on his nose (cute but not worth much) and there is some either Die Deterioration Doubling where the die...
Yeah, where's the "Red Book" for Ancients... :)
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