Hey, welcome to CT. Great find. Don't quit your day job, because there are lots of old Lincoln cents out there (and old collectors collecting...
It certainly is pretty, I want to see what the "experts" say.
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High praise indeed and I will keep trying till I get a good picture.
I said I was lousy with pictures!!!
Almost all ancients have some degree of cleaning. I think potassium hydroxide is one of the agents in MS70.
The "sniffer" doesn't really "sniff" coins, but uses reflective infrared to detect organic materials on the surface. Similar machines I have used...
I would love to have an Athena/Owl Tetradrachm, but don't want to put out the money just yet. I saw this coin - a small bronze - on fee-bay and...
Yes, if you are sending in coins for grading (any TPG) I would not have Verdi-Care on them. If you use it to remove verdigris, I would remove any...
Actually since Verdi-Care also serves as protection, it should come in last place.
yup
Ugly, odd, eeehhh [ATTACH]
My cleaning of ancients is not stellar, but you can't go wrong with using a water soak and occasionally brushing with a toothbrush that has the...
Yazza boss
The sun is below the yardarm somewhere in the world...
Aes rude (Latin, "rough bronze") was a nugget of bronze used as a sort of proto-currency in ancient Italy during the gradual transition from...
This might b close... [ATTACH]
Sorry, being snarky, was interesting to see what country they were supposed to be. I think I have seen that same cup motif on other Israel coins.
This thread is getting overly snarky... [ATTACH]
The term is actually adsorb water, and I do agree with you that regardless of a water rinse or not, the coin will have some water on the surface...
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