I see your point. On any silver coins I have tried it on, nothing came off and actually nothing at all seemed to happen. If the material has...
There have been several posts in the past about the use of a preservative micro-crystalline product that museums use to preserve metal objects,...
If I recall correctly, those uncovered Gordian coins were both well struck and never circulated and well protected in what had been sealed urns.
If I remember some huge hoard of these coins had been recently unearthed in Britain, a payroll for troops that never got to them and they...
18 out of 20. I missed two early ones on when the Romans started their coinage and the didrachma versus the quadrigatus. I'll have to show this to...
Very nice post. I was very lucky to be a high school history teacher for 43 years. It gave me an opportunity to be the sponsor for the school's...
We look at these coins and think "ancient". Few tend to consider that the time period from the building of the great pyramids was already ancient...
Thanks for that bibliography. I find reading material like that fascinating.
Now that is an outstanding coin, well struck and beautiful toning.
Nice coin. In case you are wondering, ULTOR is the Latin word for "avenger". As you can see on your coin, Mars is girded and ready to give...
Thanks for posting all that material. That is the kind of information I love to read about. Any explanation for the absence of higher denomination...
A very good book on this subject is "Coinage in the Roman Economy by Kenneth W. Harl, where between pages 130-145 he lists some of the emperors of...
As all of us know the Roman Empire coinage underwent a great, some may say catastrophic, debasement in the mid to later part of the Third Century....
A Chi Rho Christo gram on a gaming token? I wonder what that says about the odds of winning improving. I would have chosen a coin with Tyche or...
Welcome to the real world of collecting ancients, trying to determine if the one you bought is genuine. All of us have doubts about some of our...
Now here's an oddball empress, Aquilia Severa and married to an oddball emperor if there ever was one, the sun worshipping Elagabalus, who would...
Postings like this scare the daylights out of me. How in heaven's name is the average collector, even savvy collectors and dealers supposed to...
Looks like something that fell out of my transistor radio when it hit the floor.
In my head I know you are right. I guess I was wondering if somebody had invented (without my knowing about it) some concoction that will lighten...
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