The coins for my permanent collection/lifetime hold I take out of the slab.
Here is my most recent addition: a Claudius aureus, which he had struck to honor the Praetorian Guards. The reverse is inscribed IMPER RECEPT" or "The Emperor Received".
As the story goes, the guards found Claudius in the imperial palace hiding behind a curtain, after Caligula was assassinated.
Reposting for visibility.
So, my Sicilian octopus has gotten bronze disease. I do not have photos of the initial symptoms, but I was fairly confident it was bronze disease, it was bright green and came off with light scraping.
I (mostly) followed the instructions online, I made a 5% solution of sodium sesquicarbonate and distilled water. After the first soak, I stripped the patina off, but most of the green was gone! Great news. I followed it up with more scraping, and soaking, and then I did a 3rd soak - “to be sure”.
I left this 3rd soak probably far longer than I needed to, maybe 2 or even 3 weeks? I got distracted, and it’s left in a corner of my kitchen.
When I finally checked on it, I’m presented with an almost a fully oxidized green coin. It “oxidized” while it was soaking in the sesquicarbonate. It looks almost like malachite. What happened here?? I didn’t use tap water at any points. Maybe to rinse out the containers? I was also using the same plastic container for each rinse. It’s currently soaking in a new 5% solution.
Questions: What happened here? Is there any way to recover this? What can I do? It’s much less attractive than it was before.
Yes, I know I messed up by not taking photos at every point in the chain. Feel free to chew me out. Pic 1 is current status, pic 2 and 3 are when I received it, before any BD.
I found this lot for 97us dollars (145500 argentinian pesos), its is listed as 5 unidentified antoninianii, the other photos are similar coins in the same seller. Is the lot worth its price?
Hi all, need some help here. Does anyone have any clue what this coins is?
Added a key coin to my collection. Nerva in choice VF with rev of AEQVITAS, RIC II 25. Nerva wanted to show his rule of justice after Domitian’s death in 96, which is why the choice of Aquitas (fairness) and scales of justice on obverse. He did not have good support of the military, so adopted and raised the great general Trajan to Caesar in late 97.
I'm brand new to ancient coin collecting. I bought my first coin today, and when I got home, I realized IDing it is much harder than I thought it'd be. I know it's a Denarius from Septimius Severus, but I had no idea how many variations there would be while he was the ruler. The obverse says SEVERVS PIV, and then it's hard to read. The reverse is hard to read in general. I looked through several different websites but haven't been able to find an exact match. Are there any sites you recommend? Is this coin too worn to be able to ID? Sorry for the noob questions!
I recently obtained an Azilises tetradrachm to reunite with his Azes peers. As often discussed in this forum, the relative chronology of Indo-Scythian kings is still a matter of debate as so little is known about them. What is known however, is that Scythians were among the first to field fully armored (which in Greek translates to kataphraktos) heavy cavalry as shock units in battles. This is something that was destined to have a long-lasting influence all through to the Parthian and Byzantine empires, and something they must have been very proud of since Indo-Scythian kings are depicted as such on their coins. There is more variation on the reverses. Here, Azilises chose a goddess who might be Tyche (equivalent of the Roman Fortuna), holding a lamp or some other light source and a palm. There are also group pictures with two Azes tets (upper and lower), where Athena is shown on the reverses.
Whitehead 319(i), Mitchiner 6/801d, Senior type 56.522T
Type : Tétradrachme bilingue
Date : c. 55-35 AC
Nom de l'atelier/ville : Taxila
Métal : argent
Diamètre : 26,5 mm
Axe des coins : 1 h.
Poids : 9,51 g.
Description avers : Le roi à cheval passant à droite, tenant une couronne de la main droite et un étendard de la main gauche ; devant le cheval, un monogramme.
Légende avers : BASILEWS BASILEWN MEGALOU// AZOU
Description revers : Nike debout à gauche tenant une couronne et une palme.
Titulature revers : LÉGENDE KHAROSHTHI .
Hi folks! I'm working on a lecture on the history of minting coins aimed at a lay audience of undergraduate students. I want to start with Lydian coins and how stamped coins were made, but I'm having trouble finding resources about this. Does anyone know a good place to look? I tried my university library, but there wasn't much.
(For context I'm a psych grad student running a mock lecture as part of the data collection for my thesis, and my supervisor let me pick the topic. I'm a modern coin collector, and would collect ancient coins too if I didn't live on a student budget)