Yes, I did get them from the same seller. Any suggestions on the apparent corrosion on a 50% alloy of silver/copper coin? I don't necessarily...
Thanks, especially for that link. As it turned out I found about the variation in Van Meter's Imperial coins right after I posted this. I would be...
I recently acquired a few coins I have questions about. The first is a Roman Republic Denarius, Sear 176, Syd 570A, weighing 3.96 grams. If I am...
Eve gave it back when they got kicked out and all their kids were born after that.
They must be unenlightened.
Very nice sestertius of Severus Alexander.
Nothing can be known with absolute certitude. Much of what we commonly think of as known with absolute certitude is really known only with more or...
Two best railroad shots I ever took were from an old Nikon D50 back around 2005. Only 6.1 megapixels and the lens was a 35-135 Nikkor film camera...
Linseed oil? I have never run into that one for cleaning or preserving bronze coinage. I'll have to research that one. Any other posters ever try...
Question. Some of the coins look terrible. Some not so much. Why the difference?
I do railroad photography as another hobby. Trying to get snap shots of fast moving trains is not so easy with the cell phone cameras. For the...
Thanks for that informative response. Have you used this product or has anybody reading this used it on ancient bronze coins?
AS the OP for this thread I guess I kind of expected mixed reviews on this. I did some research on the net and found the results there mirrored...
The accompanying article, of course, got it wrong about the denarii of the late First and the Second Century AD being pure silver. From the mid...
Olive oil seems to work for Popeye, if mixed thoroughly with spinach.
Somewhere I read a while ago where a person had recommended olive oil as a way of cleaning and preserving very old coins, copper, bronze or...
Sounds like you had a lot of fun.
Don't feel bad. If I did not already have a nicer looking Janus As I might have bought it and I have been collecting ancients for decades.
I don't know, but looking at the image of Titus, his facial features, he does not look well. I wonder if there was something intentional about that.
Thanks for those citations. I have some difficulty with the extremely low numbers for the very early period. I agree that the blaming of the fire...
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