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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3946394, member: 74834"]Some things are the same and some are different. I'm using online resources more, and the first to do is weighing and measuring. Describing starts with checking the original description and making my own, making a picture and putting the coin in its rightful place, enjoying it for a few days next to my work place and maybe writing about it after checking if it was treated before on CoinTalk. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1039996[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>To the right you see my medieval pennies section (it is very small) and the place where I'm going to put this penny in its box. For the diameter I'm using an old printer's rule. Because ancients often are not exactly round it's rarely necessary to divide the millimeters. </p><p><br /></p><p>Finding the right number to assign to a coin is always a little puzzle. In this case, medieval Europeans of the 1000-1300 AD period start with 47 (I have 10 of these). The boldfaced weight means that I weighed it myself and didn't use the sellers data (scales might differ).</p><p>A colleague seller once gave me sound advice. If a tray falls on the floor with all your coins of the same type, you can quickly put them back in the right place with the help of the exact weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1039998[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>4711.</b> Deventer, emperor Conrad II (1027-1039). Obv. Portrait of a bearded saint. Rev. Small cross with four corner dots in a stipple circle, surrounded by a word starting with D(aventriae). 19 mm, <b>1.19 gr. </b>Dann. 566. JMP 1997/98 p. 28. FD 1. <i>Nice addition 2019</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3946394, member: 74834"]Some things are the same and some are different. I'm using online resources more, and the first to do is weighing and measuring. Describing starts with checking the original description and making my own, making a picture and putting the coin in its rightful place, enjoying it for a few days next to my work place and maybe writing about it after checking if it was treated before on CoinTalk. [ATTACH=full]1039996[/ATTACH] To the right you see my medieval pennies section (it is very small) and the place where I'm going to put this penny in its box. For the diameter I'm using an old printer's rule. Because ancients often are not exactly round it's rarely necessary to divide the millimeters. Finding the right number to assign to a coin is always a little puzzle. In this case, medieval Europeans of the 1000-1300 AD period start with 47 (I have 10 of these). The boldfaced weight means that I weighed it myself and didn't use the sellers data (scales might differ). A colleague seller once gave me sound advice. If a tray falls on the floor with all your coins of the same type, you can quickly put them back in the right place with the help of the exact weight. [ATTACH=full]1039998[/ATTACH] [B]4711.[/B] Deventer, emperor Conrad II (1027-1039). Obv. Portrait of a bearded saint. Rev. Small cross with four corner dots in a stipple circle, surrounded by a word starting with D(aventriae). 19 mm, [B]1.19 gr. [/B]Dann. 566. JMP 1997/98 p. 28. FD 1. [I]Nice addition 2019[/I][/QUOTE]
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