We are talking about heavily encrusted stuff that's not too corroded or unstable- just encrusted. I've found the peroxide method similar to...
One that I've done is to heat some hydrogen peroxide solution (drugstore first aid strength, not the industrial stuff) in the microwave, until it...
What the heck IS that!?! Yikes! But if that's a fossil, how did all the delicate appendages survive intact? No way you could remove something...
If ever a terrestrial critter looked like the monster in the Hollywood Alien movies... Wow!
Cool stuff! If you're ever on the East Coast in south GA or north FL, look me up. You might enjoy this fossil walk I did, less than a mile from...
That must be a new NGC slab. Not the same owl, of course, but it works. "Bug eyed owls", indeed- yours and mine especially. It's almost frog-...
Oh yeah, and it's old. Like 200 or more years old, is my next wild guess, based on the look. Ancient? Maybe, but I get more of a 1600-1800 AD...
I'll chime in on the "Arabic" and then disappear without adding one iota of further useful information, I'm afraid. Extremely vague wild guess?...
Do please elaborate.
Oh- also, zooming in on the images, it looks cast. Note also that little "HH" in the lower obverse field. What is that? The person who did the...
I will add that it is very cool looking and has neat "antique" toning, but I am highly suspicious of it having any real age. Look closely at the...
Based on my own quick searching and nothing more, it appears it could be a restrike like this, of this type, or a similar piece along the same theme?
Those were perhaps the two things that most caught my eye, aside from the appeal of the design itself. Thanks. This may become the "new oldest"...
I just bought my first ancient Owl! Had a thing for owls since I was a kid. Always wanted one on an ancient coin. Never had one. Until I...
Pulled the trigger on this so recently that the electrons are still quivering. Might not be my last for 2016 yet, though. [IMG]
Seems a reasonable theory to me.
It looks like brass to me, and you can see traces of the old plating. I would not be surprised if you're right about it having ended up buried...
I've been known to spit on and rub crusty dug coppers in my fingers (if you've watched that in my videos, you'll have seen me do it, and...
This. +2. However, I will add (perhaps unnecessarily) that for me personally, it does nothing at all in terms of interest, but if you like it,...
PS- on a less serious note- the obverse of that coin was prophetic about the future of the region. It looks like a modern military helmet with an...
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