Would it be a bad idea to treat the coin in lemon juice and see what happens to the toning/patina?
Received the coin in the mail today. I believe the underside of Aphrodite's hair has been tooled along with the chest of Pegasus. The relief of...
It's possible but impossible to say for sure since top of the pi design is off the flan. I still believe it more closely resembles pi 3 or 4...
The first link I posted about transitional owls (like the one you have), lists more types on top of the 6 u wish to collect. Btw, it looks like u...
Like Doug stated earlier, it's gonna take ALOT of money, well beyond $10,000 (considering most archaic tets are around 10,000 by themselves). So...
As far as "types" go, it's a bit more complicated than that, but if u can obtain six different style owls, you are pretty well covered in the...
I store my coins in Mylar flips as well, even my owl tet
Yup it worked....Athena's face is super swollen like she got stung by a bunch of bees....either that or got carried away with the Botox
I'm using my ipad so it should be similar as long as ur on the coin talk.com website and not a third party app. Underneath the post box should be...
Post a pic...I'm always interested in seeing other collectors' tets. This is mine...
Yes...most (and I use the term most loosely) who own an example of an Owl tet have the common classical tet with the archaic almond shaped eye...
Read this...it talks about dating based on the floral style on the attic helmet Athena wears....
Is the black patina on my silver drachm suspicious?
Thank all of u guys for ur input. I should receive the coin in the mail in a few days and will post my own pics of the coin and have u all check...
Btw...how can I tell if a coin has been tooled to add detail?
Thanks...The previous auction prior to the one that just ended had a beautiful Aphrodite Corinth drachm that I let slip by and have regretted it...
I won this auction...just suspicious.
Does this coin look like it has been tooled? http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=260284
How can u tell if it's babylon mint or not?
Beautiful coins...Sikyon definetely my fav as well...I've been looking for one for some time and can't find one as good quality as u have....
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