That one's got a nice provenance too - ex. Harlan Berk, ex. Zach Beasly. It's not going to be ex. JA until I kick the bucket, I can tell you that...
Since this is becoming a trend, I'll throw in my last ten new coins, but these are the last ten I've photographed. There are newer ones that I...
Well now. I'm going to have to recuse myself from picking favorites. Just like Steve's set, there are so many good things to say about each and...
I can't tell the difference between flan adjustment and brick-cleaning. On some coins, it makes little difference to me, as I'm collecting them...
Nice coin! Yours shows the fringe detail on the shield, which is missing on mine. But apparently you can't have everything with these coins.
The distaff is a reference to Hercules' requirement by the Delphic Oracle to be enslaved to Omphale for a year. It's a comic story of...
Get crackin' Steve-o! On your budget you could do a lot better than I did. Still, like I said, some of the higher end pieces with XF detail have...
Macedonian shield.
Hey friends. Here's a coin I've been looking to collect for over a year, but I could not find an example that satisfied me aesthetically and...
Wow, fantastic, Race! :wideyed:
That's RIC VI Heraclea 13, and RIC calls it a radiate fraction. As Doug points out, we don't know what the Romans called these coins, so all the...
I don't think it's a coin. Button perhaps?
Your English is certainly better than that of many Americans. Anyway, we have quite a few non-native speakers on this forum. No worries. :)
Ah...mineral spirits. Thank you. That's easy to find.
The first is Constantius II as Augustus, with obverse legend DN CONSTANTIVS PF AVG. (A very nice coin, with great detail on both sides!) The...
What the hell is "kelpen" - woven of kelp? I weave my oven mitts from hemp. Kelp would be just plain weird.
Ok, thank you. I'll give it a try with the Trajan. That coin is just a mess.
Bill, if a coin's been smoothed, I assume the smoothing would cut through the patina and expose the naked bronze. Then I assume the "restorer"...
With fourees, it can be almost any combination of base metals the counterfeiters could get their hands on. Typically it's bronze, with varying...
Here are two coins that I find worrisome. The Trajan as is suffering from bronze disease, and I suspect that it's been painted and waxed. Since...
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