If it will not come off with very warm water, it's not wax, not bee's wax, anyway.
Nicely written and illustrated. For anyone looking for a very readable story of the Syracusan Expedition, may I recommend Peter Greene's "Armada...
Superb and swell worth any premium over the what they normally sell for. As a matter of fact, and I like Gallienus, yours is the nicest I've ever...
I only have a few of these Sassanian pieces but I have observed that the tone of these coins seems somewhat different from Greek and Roman silver...
In my experience that wax you mentioned dries to a rock-hard finish and does not feel waxy. I would not soak a bronze coin in any kind of cleaner...
Good portrait, typical mushy reverse. I'd buy it for my own collection just for that portrait.
Sounds plausible.
I am not as well versed in Byzantine coinage as I ought to be but let me ask a question about the use of the M for the value of 40 numus coin. I...
Both of these coins are superb, museum quality.
No doubt about this one. During the American Revolution, British and Loyalist allies in the Crown occupied NYC environs combined to print huge...
I am not all that familiar with the coinage of the Middle East circa the Crusades, but I am wondering if some might be an original issue by a...
That is an amazing achievement. That figure of about half of one's children surviving to adulthood was true, not just in ancient times, but pretty...
I had never thought about the she wolf as the ultimate mother of Rome.
As we all know (or better remember) we are coming up to Mothers' day this Sunday and I thought it might be a nice idea to take a look at coins...
I don't think I have ever seen a coin with some kind of ancient catapult on it but I would like to if anyone has one.
Excellent photos.
I have seen items like this in history and archaeological publications and while fascinating to think about, I don't think I would want one in my...
I hate to admit this, but if I had seen these coins in a box of unattributed , as I am so unfamiliar with them, I would have walked away.
Yikes. A full purse of these coins could be used as a weapon.
Maybe that one was minted in the City of Rome where a prominent proboscis would have been considered an asset to one's appearance in the same way...
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