Theo Gray tells PopSci.com How to make convincing fake-gold bars. He's never actually done it. He believes his recipe is more difficult to detect than the fake gold bars in Ethiopia's central bank.
(Anyone interested in gold bars should visit the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Reservations are required to be let into the gold vault. If you don't have reservations it's still worth a visit for the ANS coin exhibits. Visitors receive some odd numismatic-related publications, like these free comic books.)
Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire joins the Linked Open Data cloud
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In a significant enhancement to the study of Roman imperial coinage, nearly
5,000 coin hoards from the Oxford Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project
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