You got a professional opinion from Ken. If you look at the edge it will look horizontally stretched, with small vertical tears from the metal...
As others have said, if it is powdery then you need to treat it, otherwise leave it alone. A drop of Verdicare will stabilize it. Follow the...
Very nice. I prefer the “Type A” ones with the smiling mouth like yours, from a time when Athens was prospering and optimistic. Tentatively dated...
Nice graph. It shows the recent decline in US coin prices referenced in that other thread. The Hunt brothers was an amazing time. I recall...
For what it is worth, I had the same question and there was thread on this subject on Forum that I can’t find right now. My takeaways were stamps...
There a lot of very well travelled Tets around these days. The first one looks like a Type A Classical Owl, c. 454-431 BC. The second one is...
I don’t know if they’re real or fake, and I’d bet money the seller doesn’t know either. The seller’s other listings look like standard pawn shop...
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll take a closer look at it when I get home. I’ll feel slightly less silly if they aren’t exact duplicates.
That’s awesome. It’s like finding a long lost triplet.
Completely agree. I think some wear greatly enhances the appeal of an ancient coin. The British Museum specimen is about perfect to my eye. I’d...
So I’m happily taking photos of my modest collection when I come to this coin: [ATTACH] Titus AR Denarius Rome Struck after July 1 79CE...
If it was smoothed and tooled then the attractive patina was applied as well. It’s more a sculpture than a coin at this point, but a beautiful one...
Earlier this year I got a new copy from an MA-Shop dealer in France for something like $200 plus $40 in shipping. Arrived safely and it was the...
As a professional numismatist, you know it is impossible to authenticate from photos. I recommend contacting the experts in that particular series...
This year was all about reinventorying everything. Now that I know what I have, I think that someone else will get more enjoyment out of some of...
I've said my last about fakes, so I'll offer a different kind of blooper. This year I decided to fix my collecting tool problems once and for all....
Working under the handicap of soft tools and no magnification wasn't enough of a challenge, they needed a curved surface as well? And I thought I...
I never noticed that. I just checked some larger AR tets, per @TheRed advice, and you're both absolutely right, it is quite noticeable in...
I added one to the original post. Very difficult to photograph. Hopefully it shows the curvature.
I just received a Ptolemy II tetradrachm with a feature I've seen before and long wondered about: the reverse is concave (bowed in), and the...
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