I love coins with patina like this. Is this what happens when a coin is cleaned back to the bare metal on the highpoints and then left to retone?...
@Orielensis @ancient coin hunter alright your Neptunes are less worn and much nicer, but my Neptune's got that Berber stock bubble butt [ATTACH]
I think this is a great example of why grading ancient coins is so difficult - obvious and quite serious wear on the laurel, but one of the most...
This doesn't quite fit the bill, but RIC does list this coin as common. If it's not the first coin of Aurelian I've found in hundreds of...
Thanks @Orange Julius will see if those are available for Android very nifty
A rare campgate of Crispus found in an uncleaned lot. Minted shortly before his father ordered his execution, this coin appears to have faced...
Nice coin, is that Hunnic-Sasanian? I was trying to find coinage of various steppe-peoples last night, Turkic, Scythian, Hunnic and not much was...
Sorry I'd gone off topic and was just talking about cleaning, but referencing the quantities of DW you suggested for treating BD - I think 2000...
Yeah after you saying how much DW you use to treat BD, I'm thinking I might be being a tad stingy with my volumes for cleaning. I tend to have...
Interesting. Yeah I had a quick google earlier and didn't seem to be readily retailed like DW is, you'd probably have to procure it from chemical...
Both lye and sodium sesquicarbonate will strip patina given a long enough soak in strong enough solution, the latter will take longer to do so....
Put it into distilled water by itself, change the water every few days until the green powder is gone completely, then change once more and leave....
Terrible ruler or not, he was certainly a terrible porker.
Not many coyote down here in New South Mexico, so I've got the next best thing and hired a pair of enterprising young wombats to smuggle a rare...
How cool. It was indeed Roman Republican (or at least a contempoary imitation) as per the bulk lot attribution at a glance, but it was also Zeus...
Thanks Justin. f corresponds to variation 6 in the more info link? MAA is Les monnaies de l'Afrique Antique? Those are photos from an English...
My three arrived today, very happy - much better in the hand as expected and well worth the small outlay. Came with a handwritten note and Roma...
Hi Topcat, I believe you bought this from me in a 99c auction with another rough piece of silver? Is that weight correct? I did not weigh the...
I'm sure someone with the requisite experience will eventually answer you, most members of this forum are US or Europe ie they are still asleep or...
Murdering your little brother and punishing people who make fun of you would scream insecurity and weakness to most. Hardly the acts of a man of...
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