You seem to have trouble using language to communicate thought. Do you talk like this IRL?

That looks great, much better than the original cardboard components

That’s the official story at least, but we all know what’s really going on. There are 10 seasons of documentary detailing what’s really happening under that mountain.

Before the fiasco in Thailand I was a Musk fan, my opinion of him has falled greatly since then; even more so since Twitter. Now I groan whenever I see a headline with his name.

That is a great price for a random shop. It’s a great coin and it’s really cool you were able to stop in and find coins. The shops I vist here in the US, all the prices are 3 to 4 times what they should be, if they have any at all.

They’re not advertising or telling people to come to lemmy.world… people are coming here and they’re just accommodating them instead of blowing them off

Lol, I literally just saw a similar headline, read the result, and said the same thing just before seeing this post.

I think he should have used a fiberglass pen before applying the wax, then the final result would’ve looked much smoother.

Also the edges look concerning to me, might have some bronze disease. A long term soak in DW can clear up mild cases of BD

I know Joseph Mallozzi used to post cool things like this to reddit/r/Stargate

This is blowing my mind right now… Those things gave me nightmares as a kid thinking they crawl into people’s ears…

I always love these behind the scenes pictures :-)

Are you okay? Would you like a drink of water?

Is this a humble brag for how many books you’ve read?

I live in the states. As for how I acquire them, there are three major dealers in uncleaned coins: dirty old coins, nero coins, and noble roman coins. They have good reputations and you’ll get authentic coins from them, though their descriptions of the condition of the coins and ease of cleaning them are borderline fraud. That being said the more you pay per coin the better shape they’ll be, if your just starting out go with the cheapest… you’ll make mistakes and its best to make a mistake with a poor quality coin than a high quality coin. I’ve read that several shops on vcoins sell uncleaned lots but I haven’t had much success finding unclean coins on there. If you’re thinking about making a purchase make a post on here about it and we can discuss what you’re likely to get and talk strategies on cleaning them.

I don’t buy my coins from eBay. When i was doing my initial research i leaned buying from eBay requires expertise and experience to reduce the changes of falling for a scam. There are three major dealers in uncleaned coins. They’ve got decent reputations and you’re not going to get scammed. Though they’re descriptions of the state of the coins are hyperbole and should be taken with a grain of salt and they say the coins aren’t picked through but going off how true the descriptions are I don’t believe it. However, you do get authentic unclean coins from them… so to play it safe go with them. The 3 dealers are dirty old coins, nero coins, and noble roman coins. The more you pay per coin the better shape they’ll be, if your just starting out go with the cheapest… you’ll make mistakes and its best to make a mistake with a poor quality coin than a high quality coin. I’ve read that several shops on vcoins sell uncleaned lots but I haven’t had much success finding unclean coins on there.

Lol, this one went over my head. What’s the story here?

Wow this is really neat, I didn’t realize sun spots occur in bands like this. I always assumed they occur across the whole surface

Lol, this one is great

If you are buying a coin that’s already on the market as a fully attributed coin then yeah you don’t want to clean it. I buy coins that are “fresh” out of the ground so they’re literally caked with mud. They look like this so they require cleaning. Properly cleaning 2000 yr old coins is a months long process involving microscope and very deliberate & precise application of effort. For some reason I find it very relaxing, almost like a form of meditation. It’s a hobby that I’d love to share the results and talk about with others.

Shameless plug: You can see some of my Before/After pictures over at [email protected] :-)

Yeah, I like tech too but also enjoy cleaning ancient coins. It’ll be nice if someone else found my community and it would pick up. I’m trying to post ever so often so anyone that stumbles on it will know I’m still around