/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>58032327
>15 bux total

Fuck yeah frogbro that's a superb deal!

>>57460652
>>57460429
>My kids are all 5 years old or younger and I'm doing my part.

I started collecting when I was 5, but often it can take until teenage years for the seed of interest to germinate so I'd just wait and watch for 5-10 years to see what kind of individuals your kids become. My 4 year old loves playing with and sorting my old coins, and my 6 year old frequently comes to me asking "can you please show and tell me about some more of your ancient artifacts?" which I'm always happy to do, I've spent upwards of an hour at times telling her the stories of various antiquities which she digests with unwavering attention and interest, really makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside lol. Hopefully it develops into a genuine lifelong appreciation like it did in me when my dad and grandpa exposed me to coins and antiques as a little kid, no way to know but you'll have the best odds if you introduce your kids to your treasures as soon as they can be trusted to not accidentally swallow them.

>>57332833
>chinese knife money is really interesting and would have been very practical in a time when various metal blades were in constant demand

Only the very first tool monies would have been functional, the alloys used for the later more standardized "knife money" and the like were often unsuitable for use as tools. Scholarship is scant but it's believed that the more abstracted knife, hoe, and axe money evolved from the cast but unfinished tools made by itinerant bronze workers which were not yet hammer hardened, sharpened or mounted to a handle, and were popular trade or proto-currency items due to their practical value as tools and their weight in bronze which could always be recycled into something else. The evolution of functional tools of good alloys into non functional monies made of impractical alloys probably took centuries. In Europe caches of bronze axes are very common, also hoards of sickles and to a lesser extent chunky bracelets/arm rings and spearheads, all of which i suspect were regarded as a sort of money too.

>>57288106
>i went for it despite the ominous feeling because i fell for the diabolical sirens of the superslurp.
>I've seen similar condition 4 Reales sell for $700, and dreamt it was my pass for gainzville. Said no to my guts and prefered to listen to the sweet melody of easy monies. You helped me get back to my senses.

Sorry for id-switching fren. I've definitely succumbed to the semitic sirens' song too, getting burned hurts but those instances have been very valuable learning experiences which motivated me to be more observant and get better educated so I wouldn't fall for the same thing the next time. On only a few occasions where greed made me disregard my instinct have I came out a winner, most of the time the gut is right and my error in judgment is immediately obvious when the unwise slurp gets delivered, so these days I tend to listen and obey when it says something feels sus. I've also succumbed to the cockiness fed by an unusual streak of awesome wins, thinking you're hot shit while riding the dopamine wave from the successful slurps makes one careless and more susceptible to scams that deflate the ego and bring us back down where we belong, better to avoid that and always use good judgement.

>>56985180
>How do i get rid off this dark goo without damaging the coin?
>>56985935

What I'd do is soak it in acetone for a little while to dissolve any finger grease or resins first. The black goo honestly just looks like really thick Silver Sulfide, same shit as normal tarnish, so a combination of baking soda/aluminum then using a sharp bamboo skewer to remove loosened crud then more baking soda/aluminum treatments etc. should work.

I detect some soft lumpy-lookin' re-deposited metallic silver deposits on the coin, definitely on the neck and in the middle of the black zone on his head and in the eye socket area too. That can be scraped off very easily with the sharp bamboo, it's soft stuff but often the surface of the coin underneath can be a bit rough and soft too so it takes patience and care to make sure you don't fuck it up and start digging into the surface of the actual coin. I'm certain that coin could be improved significantly but you need to be careful, and ideally use a binocular or digital microscope to see it and the tip of your tool at 10-20x so you don't do anything too dumb for too long

>>56873087
>i won this Lycian League's Masikytes hemidrachm at what i believe to be a decent price : 52 bux.

Without looking it up I'm pretty sure those assorted Lycian League hemidrachms retail closer to $100 , yours is practically uncirculated but has dark gunk clogging up the design on the obverse so it would respond well to aluminum/baking soda and careful cleaning with a sharp bamboo toothpick. Surfaces look great so it would clean-up very nice.

>>56873274
>i ended up purchasing LOADS of vintage uranium glasses

Hah, that's an eclectic purchase fren, I haven't really dabbled in vaseline/uranium glass so I lack a granular understanding of the market but I have noticed that lots of younger people like collecting glowglass so when compared against lots of other things that only old dying boomoids care about I think uranium glass is a good market to work in.

>>56815181
>You should look up on univ databases for translating apps
>I wanna know what it says, unless you already have the QRD from the professor?
About as far as I got down that path was looking for universities with healthy/active departments that teach it and might provide a translation in exchange for letting them borrow it for use in class or by a doctoral student or whatever. At the current rate of improvement I guess AI would be able to do it soon if it can't already.
> but it may be something very cool, like an epic or a myth narrating gods' adventures. One can dream!
Yeah man, I don't have experience with these things but it didn't immediately look like a boring ledger to me, maybe a business contract? Probably not a fragment of a great epic or anything priceless like that but who knows? Anyway, if I happen to come across any other cheapie sleeper Cuneiform tablets I'll send you an email ASAP, I don't need more than 1.
>>56815366
>ive used these badass rubberband wrist rockets but never an old school leather sling. how long you been practicing?
Yep, those wrist-rockets got me into lots of trouble as a kid lol. I've practiced with the old-style shepherd's sling intermittently for 8 years but I honestly ain't too good at it. MUCH easier and more powerful is the "staff sling" which is like a hand-held trebuchet, very easy to build and you can accurately hurl rather heavier payloads faster and further and it's considerably easier for noobs too. Not as agile or compact as the shepherd's sling but their deadly power more than compensates. 10/10 would recommend.