The piece looks good to me. What I tell my wife (and others who ask) how I know the pieces I have are really 2000+ years - there is no way of...
Nice blue Greek bottle. My oldest bottle is a Mountain Dew from the early 1960's. [ATTACH] With a Mason's Strawberry Soda cap. [ATTACH] I can...
[ATTACH] Happy XVth. Are you accepting or giving votive offerings? Thanks for your note. I have both books. They are on the top shelf of my RR...
I would go with a history (not coin) book or two to cover the time period that Romans issued coins (300 BC to 476 AD). The latter time period is...
looks fine to me, no
Great coin. It has one of the better noses I have seen! My wife picked up a hand full at a recent show. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Not much in the way...
Bing, It looks like your fingers are centered between the pans better than mine.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I use a KOBALT digital micrometer that my son gave me several years ago. He used one where he worked and thought it far...
I have picked up several Roman scale weights, scale parts and coins showing scales. This coin is in the latter group and was a consolation for...
https://www.ngccoin.com/auction-central/us/st-gaudens-20-1907-1933-pscid-70/auctions/1924-20-ms-fgrade-64-tgrade-64-coinid-19177 The link above is...
Welcome to ancient coin collecting @Lawtoad ! I hope you have as much fun learning history and coins as I have. I think the first book in the...
I like your avatars. Mine is one of my favorite pieces, a silver knuckle bone. I have a few: silver, bronze, lead, bone and bone with lead weight...
Three scale weights arrived recently. This one looks like it has a wolf or wolf and twins on it. Take a look and see what you think. I have not...
That is an interesting coin, but only gave it an 8. It is not my collecting area and if I went to 10 I'd have to buy one. Interesting how the mint...
The cost to join ANS is a bit higher than ANA. ANS $115/95 with and without the AJN magazine. ANA $46/28 with and without print copy of ANA...
You can see more about this on my blog - http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/
I bought three weights in a recent auction. The best item is one in the form of Cupid. Note the chain is a thick braid formed loops crossed at 90...
Great coins, I like the young coin pics of Caracalla and Geta (but do not have any). He aged a lot from 208 to 210 if the coin dates match what he...
I read an interesting presentation on Academia.edu by Clive Stannard. Yes, the Stannard adjustment guy. You can get a copy here:...
Great presentation. I like to show some of my cast pieces on pages of Garrucci or plates from Haeberline. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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