Hi! I'm Richard, 42 years old, from
Sweden.
I find this site today when I was reuptaking an old hobby. When I was about 10 years old I got some ancient greek and
roman coins of my dad, which I was very fascinated over. They was nearly 2000 years old. Then, the internet didn't exist. Later, about 15 years ago, I looked for more
ancient coins and bought some big lots of coins, but my economy allowed uncleaned coins in pretty bad
quality, but there are som interesting coins, for example from
Augustus,
Caligula and
Nero. But the most of my
collection with over 500 coins, is unidentified.
But I didn't come no further with the
identification. And I tried to clean them in different ways, (well, please don't ban me now) but I tried with hydrocloric acid and
electrolysis...
(only a few of them).
Three years ago I inherited one
collection with a lot of ancient things from my uncle, som
ancient coins, but also other things, such as things from the vikings, old
roman antiques and much items that I don't know what it is.
Now I
had my
collection in a
glass shelf...
At the top is som meteorites, and then stones that was used as
tools inte stoneages, som arrow heads from bronze and iron age, som
stone figures from Indus Valley and
Mesopotamia.
In the middle is mostly unidentified things, and som things from the viking era.
At the bottom, I've the coins. The bag far at the bottom is filled with unidetified items, which I found later in my uncles estate!
I want to make a
good collection of my items, with as much as it can, to be identified and get a
history behing the item! I'm also open to buy more items, but my economy
still doesen't allows items for thousands of dollars. But I've seen there are cheaper but
still intresting items!
So, give me all your
good tips!
Such were it is easiest to get
help with
identification of the coins and items, how to take care of them and clean them. I want to build a private museum with much stories behind the items!
As well I look forward to view all your other
collections!