Lots of books mentioned for me to add to my TBR pile. Here are some I can suggest, some historical fiction, some historical fantasy and some a mix, mostly...
Friends; It gives me great pleasure to announce once again the Sayles and Lavender year end discount sale. This is our most significant sale of the year with...
... people who have had inconsistent results using Jax products. The same problem as with using Dellers Darkener, in that they could not control the process....
Dear List, For references for the above topic, I use 'Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World, 3000BC to AD 500, Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics', by...
You're quite right, Phil; Saylor is orthodox. I suspect that editors frequently tell authors something like: "There's no exciting climax at the end. Put...
George, could the Pears book be The Dream of Scipio? "Set in Provence during the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, the Black Death in the 14th...
I must say that there have been some pretty interesting posts to this thread. A few things I thought I would bring up: 1. Concerning Deller's Darkener or...
... You can stop this CO2 related acidity by taking two steps. 1) Put just a tiny pinch of Calcium Carbonate (Baking Soda) into the water, which will...
Electrolysis can certainly be a good tool if one has the experience. However, there are a great many factors involved, including the amount of current, the...
I agree with you that Deller's Darkener or a lot of the other things discussed in these threads can be quite detrimental to a coin's value. Luckily both...
This won't happen under normal circumstances (I use electrolysis quite a bit). Sounds like you may have connected the coin to the positive lead instead the...
I second Ian Pears. I think the first one you mentioned is the "Dream of Scipio". His "An Instance of the Fingerpost," about Oxford in the 1660s is one of...
Dear Moneta-Listers: Just in time for the holiday season, Freeman Sear has posted its new online E-auction, comprising 116 lots of Greek, Roman and Byzantine...
Roman coins interest me in part because of what they can reveal about bygone technologies and techniques. My current puzzzle is the hook that (sometimes)...
I think the clue can be found on this coin : http://imagedb.coinarchives.com/img/ubs/072/00216q00.jpg Notice that the standards on this coin have both...
I have always thought that it was for the Roman soldier to put his foot on. It would have offered him enough of a foothold to put his complete weight on it and...
In a google search on Roman military standards, I find it is attested that standards had iron points for inserting them in the ground. I have read that the...
Great thread! Kim, your mention of Flaubert's Salammbô (1862) brings to mind Edward Bulner-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii (1834). A most popular book in...
The patina discussion has had some interesting and informative moments in between the "old ladies fighting over their bingo cards" tone. I did want to add one...
Glenn, You make a good point. I want a more limited definition because the underlying chemistry is different. Another way to solve this would be simply to...
Battle over Cypriot coins heads to U.S. courts http://tinyurl.com/2dfxxn Wayne Sayles, a conservative Republican from Missouri who twice voted for President...
The following has been noted in the "Hot Off The Press" section on the CNG website at http://www.cngcoins.com/Book+List.aspx The New Standard Reference van't...
As a long time member of Moneta-L I could not help but at this time interject what we have been doing on the Antiquities_Science list with the aid of...
Gentleman, As a chemist I thought I'ld add my 2 cents to the discussion. I believe that patina is developed by two different methods. The most familiar for non...
Hello everyone- hoping you are enjoying this Sunday. I am wondering why there are religious themes featured on Sassanid coins and not other Persian dynastic...
It isn't true that religious themes are only found on Persian dynastic coins of the Sasanian dynasty. Zoroastrian religious themes are also found on the...
... hi all, sounds logical too me, pictures of the standards (signum) that i have seen reenactors use have the foothold for easy inserting into the ground. i...
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