West Celts, First Century BCE EL Stater Namnetes, Nantes 7.3 grams [ATTACH] Next, more electrum
I think you're right. That flat area's shade doesn't match the rest of the reverse. A pity - that area should have been left as is. I wonder...
Thank you. I have owned them for many years, going back to my crown collecting days, at a time when there were only printed price lists and...
Nice job! I kept my coin in the acetone bath probably longer than necessary, but since the acetone is benign as far as silver is concerned, I...
I think it was primarily done around the portrait. If you look at the deposits, you can see a certain flattening in the field around Agrippina....
Sounds like a job for Lloyd Bridges! [IMG]
Looks like a little smoothing was done, which is not terribly unusual with these large bronzes. I like the portrait!
Very nice coins and an interesting thread. I dug out three gun money coins that I've owned for many years, and took some photos of them today....
The label that came in the slab gives it a 5 for strike and a 3 for surfaces, with the notation "scratches". There are some extremely small...
Actually, the coin came to me in this condition, and already slabbed. I think the acetone bath was effective. The deposits were not major in...
I knew that there were some PVC residue deposits on the obverse of this coin when I bought it. The reverse was PVC deposit free. [ATTACH] I was...
Nice examples! Quite a number of Tyrian tetradrachms have been listed on eBay over the past year or so, comprised of Antiochus VII Sidetes and...
Here's one more pairing. This actually might have been done before. [ATTACH] The Pines of Rome, Respighi, final movement, The Appian Way. This...
How about some quadriga music, courtesy of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the third movement of his sixth symphony, and a coin? [ATTACH] [MEDIA]
Yes, judging from the photo in the article, whatever chemical is being used, it is completely stripping the surfaces, which is not necessarily a...
Another good fictional work on that period is Funeral Games by Mary Renault. This is the third book in her trilogy on Alexander III and the...
While on the subject of transitional owls, I went back to reexamine one intermediate owl that I assumed was an imitation. Having obtained...
Your coin is one of the best examples of a rare very early variety of transitional intermediate owl that I have seen. Here's a link for more...
Like fine wine and art by the masters, they don't come cheap!
Nice examples! Here's my lone Akragas hemilitron, circa 409-406 BCE. Sicily, circa 409-406 BC Akragas Æ Hemilitron Eagle standing right with...
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