Thank you all for all the hints, tips and tricks. I bought little bottles of acetone. Not more than 2 bottles per customer due to regulations?? So...
BusterLuke, Besides collector i'am also a detectorist so sometimes i find coins that need cleaning. However i do not often clean modern coins and...
Spirityoda, Thanks but we don't have walmart because i live in the Netherlands. But i will try some farmacie nearby. Kees
Mynamespat and laurentyvan, Thank you both for your quick responses. I will try to get pure aceton somewhere and start experimenting on some...
Stamps, metal detecting, writing books and publications (mainly about coins), making websites (mainly about coins), restoring my Brown Bess...
Fellow collectors, There are probably posts on how to clean coins but my problem is as follows. I collect coins since i was 10 years old. I...
I will ask him about how you two have met. And his book is indeed well received here in the Netherlands and amongst collectors of ducats all over...
Yes i know the book! I know Dariusz also and see him sometimes at coin shows here in the Netherlands. He gave me the book as a present because i...
Thanks! That is much clearer than here in the Netherlands. Here an over-date is called an overstrike and an old coin totally overstruck with other...
Sometimes only the dies were changed into something else, for instance changing the date from 1815 to 1816 or something like that. I dont know how...
Indeed, falsa da epoca means: contemporaneous counterfeits. 1822 and 1831 are no official coins but made by (foreign) forgers. The counterfeit...
Sullykerry2, I tried to register but the question they ask to see if you are no bot is indeed odd. I had to fill in the name of a king who...
Numismat, that is the one that i found on the internet and it is the only one. This coins seems to be cleaned, it was probably corroded or...
Thanks, hope to visit more.
Alurid, thank you. This is the coin type that i mean but these are from 1829. On the site they don't have a picture of a 1822 coin. When you...
Since this thread is in the ancients section i will only list my interests in ancients: I'am a collector from the Netherlands and like so many...
I noticed that there are some collectors of Brazilian coins present here. I'am collecting them also and are especially interested in...
In despite of the heavy tooling i'am happy with the coin. It is a nice example of how an as of Commodus of this type looked like when it was quite...
I'am the new owner of the coin and i think the coin is an Original coin but it is extensively tooled. In stead of L AEL the legend begins with IMP...
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