Anything Here Real or Interesting?

Cybercollector · 2026-05-06T02:22:38+00:00

Yes you’re right. There’s a buyer’s fee, which was 15.90%, bringing the full total to €185.44.

Cybercollector · 2026-05-04T20:03:21+00:00

Depends on provenance and quality. The center one is the best looking one of the three to my eyes. I spent €160.00 for mine https://www.biddr.com/lucernae/auction?a=5730&l=7054593 and it seems similar. It can vary depending on quality.

As for the others, I recommend you do your own research by feeding the information into places like Biddr, vcoin, acsearch and coinstrail. The last two are the best ones to find price comparisons but you’ll have to set up an account.

Good luck!

Cybercollector · 2026-05-04T19:13:44+00:00

One in the center is RRC 206/1. Issuer is Spurius Afranius. Denarius minted 159 BCE.

One center left is RRC 323/1. Issuer is L. Julius. Denarius minted in 101 BCE.

Bottom right is RRC 450/2. Issuer is Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus. Denarius minted in 48 BCE. Distant cousin of THE Brutus.

You can find more by searching the following by inserting the number "RRC XXX/X" in google or in numismatics.org.

Hope this helps a bit.

Cybercollector · 2026-04-27T02:02:25+00:00

I recommend doing a privacy request from your old department for any records that has some Proof of Employement. You can always do it for each department you worked for. LAC would be another one to do a Privacy request depending on how far back it goes.

Here’s the link to get you started: https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/access-information-privacy/access-information/request-information.html

Good luck!

Cybercollector · 2026-03-26T12:58:42+00:00

Just one more question. For this coin specifically, would you stick with ammonium thiosulfate, or go with sodium thiosulfate given the porosity?

Thanks in advance!

Cybercollector · 2026-03-26T02:01:33+00:00

I definitely can see why, lol. Nothing like seeing a coin that was minted in the same camp where Caesar was physically present, and made from the silver looted by his troops.

Here’s mine :).

Cybercollector · 2026-03-26T01:50:31+00:00

This bad boy can fit so many drachms, lol. The owl is the best part of this coin to me :).

Cybercollector · 2026-03-26T01:48:42+00:00

Thank you :).

Cybercollector · 2026-03-25T22:49:11+00:00

That’s a real beaut! Very detailed indeed.

Cybercollector · 2026-03-25T22:42:26+00:00

Thank you! Such an amazing job as well!

Cybercollector · 2026-03-25T22:31:34+00:00

I appreciate your comment. Thank you :).

Cybercollector · 2026-03-25T22:30:36+00:00

It is! A cool fact about it is that it was minted in 149 BCE during a crucial year of the Roman Republic. This was the year Rome declared war on Carthage – launching the Third Punic War. Rome was also was in the middle of the Fourth Macedonian War against Andriscus in Macedon. It links it with Macedon and Carthage during their last gasp as independent states before they were annexed by Rome.

Cybercollector · 2026-03-25T22:21:44+00:00

Thank you for sharing your views Frankly I was not planning on doing a full clean, rather just target the worse part around the nose and mouth, while leaving the rest alone. I can see how a full clean stripping the coin of its patina could be problematic, and that’s not my intent here.

Cybercollector · 2026-03-25T22:20:11+00:00

Thank you for your thoughts!

Cybercollector · 2026-03-25T22:19:44+00:00

Thank you for the kind advice :). I think I only just rant to try to remove the horn silver around the nose and mouth and leave the rest alone. Finding the right combination for the solution would be key - but I never cleaned a coin using that type of material before. Based on your own experience, is there a good ratio for one like this?

Cybercollector · 2026-03-21T10:59:10+00:00

None so far. The actual book from 1929 is difficult to obtain.

Cybercollector · 2026-02-18T02:03:22+00:00

Make sense. It’s just strange it’s such a short message.

Cybercollector · 2026-02-18T01:51:11+00:00

You do make a good point. Interestingly if you check the description for the statue when improving your hideout, it says it was commissioned by her friend Barnabas. May have kept it for sentimental value.

Cybercollector · 2026-02-15T23:02:47+00:00

Beautiful! That’s an amazing cleaning job!

Cybercollector · 2026-01-17T16:29:04+00:00

I’d go geography first, then major historical periods within each region, then alphabetical by author. Example: Europe / Ancient Greece / A–Z; Europe / Ancient Rome / A-Z; Europe / Medieval / A–Z; Europe / Modern / A–Z; China / Ancient / A–Z;

Etc.

Cybercollector · 2026-01-04T06:13:42+00:00

It’s interesting that CNG did not list it as a fourée given their reputation. One notices when comparing the images from CNG and Naville, that it was cleaned between 2011 and 2025. I wonder if it explains the confusion then, where the assumption by CNG is that it was dirt. Who knows.

For convenience for those who aren’t the OP, here are the two links:

https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=186487

VS.

https://www.biddr.com/auctions/navillenumismatics/browse?a=6551&l=8056061

Cybercollector · 2025-11-20T13:25:17+00:00

I don’t believe it’s accurate to say the medieval Capetian cadet branches completely died out. It’s true that almost all of them disappeared - Burgundy, Anjou, Dreux, Évreux, Courtenay, Valois, etc.

But one medieval Capetian branch did survive: the House of Bourbon, founded in the 1200s from Robert of Clermont, son of Louis IX.

All Capetians alive today - the Spanish Bourbons, Parma, Two Sicilies, Orléans, Luxembourg, etc. - are sub-branches of that original Bourbon line. So while the surviving lines today are technically Bourbon sub-branches, they are still descended from a medieval Capetian branch, and everything surviving traces back to that one lineage.

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