If you can, take it out of the holder and look at the edge. I’m not sure, but I think you might see a seam running down the middle...
I own Eric II and Aorta and am astounded that they are the work of one person. They’re worth many times what I paid. Looking forward to...
Honestly, I was too. I’ve worked with the dealer in the past and don’t question his motives. I can only speculate, but I think someone found the...
Ugh. No statement sends a chill down a collector’s spine like that one. You can’t win. You don’t want to sound mercenary and say, “spend this much...
Many people don’t use good for ancient coins, but it seemed the most apt grade to me. I won’t argue if you think it’s fair or even poor. No bait...
This is a long post, I hope you’ll find helpful. When a Ptolemy AE47 87 gram “hockey puck” in good condition appeared on VCoins earlier this year...
Or as George Carlin famously put it: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
The Flat Earth movement was originally like the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Today it seems to...
It looks like it is covered in horn silver (silver chloride) to me. If it is horn silver, to my knowledge there any further cleaning you can do to...
The angst about fakes misses what I think is perhaps the most significant point: regardless of source, you simply cannot purchase a fake of most...
It started innocently enough. I wanted an ancient coin “pocket piece”. After some searching I found a leather guitar pick holder which would...
I was watching an episode of America’s Lost Vikings for some reason, possibly because my IQ dropped so much from even the briefest exposure to the...
The ancient Greeks knew the earth was round and put forth arguments why it was so. They observed that the mast of a ship appeared first on the...
Intriguing article about using facial recognition software to attribute ancient coins and identify fakes. With 3D printing around the corner this...
Post deleted. I didn’t know it was the OP’s coin.
I tried several scales and found this scale to be accurate compared to my lab balance: Frankford Arsenal DS-750 Digital Reloading Scale with LCD...
I buy stuff like this all time just for the fun of it. There’s an adventure in figuring out what it is and learning about that subject, even if it...
The closest thing I could find was Lot 128 of this auction: https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=3904&category=92756&page=2
I can’t speak for Ken, but I look along the edges. If it looks like metal was squeezed under continuous pressure, with lots of small vertical...
I’m guessing it’s Greek and that’s an amphora? Pure guess.
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