Yes, I've had also had glitches occur, usually with long delays in submitting bids during the live sessions, or everything "freezing" up, usually...
Thank you, I have many more that I hope to photograph and post in a more comprehensive thread.
For many years I had an almost single-minded pursuit of collecting Spanish colonial and mainland coins, primarily 8 reales. Since around 2017 I...
A very nice assortment at a very good per coin price. Plenty of coins to research there. Do you plan to clean them?
A year or two ago I made an offer to Athena on a coin that they had on Vcoins for a long time, but did not receive a reply. I think it is clearly...
Well, here's my two cents worth of opinion/advice. It is incumbent upon dealers, auction houses and even collectors to be aware of current import...
I agree. These coins were necessity coins, token coins produced with the expectation that they would be redeemed for silver coins at a later...
Eastern Celts, 4th-3rd centuries BCE AR tetradrachm Janus head type 12.73 grams [ATTACH] Next: A Celtic tetradrachm imitating Alexander III or...
West Celts, First Century BCE EL Stater Namnetes, Nantes 7.3 grams [ATTACH] Next, more electrum
I think you're right. That flat area's shade doesn't match the rest of the reverse. A pity - that area should have been left as is. I wonder...
Thank you. I have owned them for many years, going back to my crown collecting days, at a time when there were only printed price lists and...
Nice job! I kept my coin in the acetone bath probably longer than necessary, but since the acetone is benign as far as silver is concerned, I...
I think it was primarily done around the portrait. If you look at the deposits, you can see a certain flattening in the field around Agrippina....
Sounds like a job for Lloyd Bridges! [IMG]
Looks like a little smoothing was done, which is not terribly unusual with these large bronzes. I like the portrait!
Very nice coins and an interesting thread. I dug out three gun money coins that I've owned for many years, and took some photos of them today....
The label that came in the slab gives it a 5 for strike and a 3 for surfaces, with the notation "scratches". There are some extremely small...
Actually, the coin came to me in this condition, and already slabbed. I think the acetone bath was effective. The deposits were not major in...
I knew that there were some PVC residue deposits on the obverse of this coin when I bought it. The reverse was PVC deposit free. [ATTACH] I was...
Nice examples! Quite a number of Tyrian tetradrachms have been listed on eBay over the past year or so, comprised of Antiochus VII Sidetes and...
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