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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KDD, post: 4129553, member: 110611&quot;]Still not great pictures of the Alexander the Great, but it shows more detail than the sellers pictures including potential damage to the patina from over-cleaning? Possible warning sign to not mess with it further.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1069463[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1069462[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Claudius quandrans is still my favourite aesthetically:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1069464[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1069466[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This was my France First Republic 1799 coin and the amount of detail my camera picked up on this was amazing compared to my naked eye. It looks fairly decent to my naked eye but this reveals some issues. I need to get a magnifying glass at some point, probably before doing anything with any coin. I can&#039;t see how this could possibly be the same coin the seller showed. Also, the reverse is upside down. Maybe other coins I have do the same, I just didn&#039;t notice. But I noticed here and rather than think I had some kind of valuable defect, I thought it might be a fake. Looking it up though this is the way coins used to be minted and sometimes still are. I also perceived this coin might be bent a tiny fraction? My pics are first contrasted with the sellers:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1069467[/ATTACH]</p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/eY8AAOSw00JeKf2H/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1069471[/ATTACH]</p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ifgAAOSwBXleKf2S/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I did see slightly earlier French coins were worth $3 USD at their lower condition. I&#039;m curious what condition coin did I end up getting?</p><p><br /></p><p>Not coin related, but I also started up my fossil collection, including a 3.5&quot; Spinosaurus tooth and a 350 million year old 4-5&quot; Orthoceros fossil. Maybe I should go out and pick a rock and draw a face on it. Pet rocks sound like they average around 1.3 billion years of age and are free, unless you buy them. :/ I couldn&#039;t think of a more inane thing, I might ebay it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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