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    Sodium hydroxide in short time periods tends not to damage green patina.
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    This one has a funky portrait but the eagle is gorgeous
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    Here's the fam! Saloninus here has a really neat and relatively unusual Zeus Ammon reverse. And Salonina has unusually good silver content
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    You're a superstar!
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    It really looks like a veil, though. But it's always possible it's some damage. If that's the case, what obverses do we know of where the figure is holding a flower?
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    I don't know where to start. I see no good legends to work from. Obverse is a shrouded bust, with a hand holding a flower(?) Reverse is what appears to be a figure in a long robe, advancing r, holding a spear(?) 23mm diam. Thanks!
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    Amazing. Did you know that off the top of your head, or how did you search for it?
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    I got this attractive jade patina provincial, about 23mm, but can’t figure it out. obviously head of Heracles with a seated Zeus, but those keywords aren’t jiving with my searching skills. thank you!
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    You have no idea. Check out the bungled Volusians:
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    I have a couple. I rescued this one from the brink, showing a grizzled, psychotic guy: This one shows a very young Commodus: Here's another young kid with a nice afro:
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    How about a tiny camel?
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    Nice catch! Thanks!
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    This 24x25mm coin of Caesarea is rather worn, but has a definitive female head. There appear to be only three females with Caesarean coins - Julia Domna, Julia Paula, and Tranquillina. The head shape doesn't match Julia Domna, and it sure looks like Julia Paula, but could also be Tranquillina. What do you think?
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    Constantine XI! my comment is the second one, with 16k likes 🙂
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    I've wanted a siliqua for a few years, but they've always been much too expensive for me. While approximately the size of a standard denarius, they often costed up to 10 times as much as a regular ole denarius. With much patience, I managed to capture this one for the same price as a denarius, which I think was a great steal. Of course, the coin has problems - massive flan crack, irregular surface, but it's relatively un-worn and overall a pretty neat piece.
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    https://www.cointalk.com/threads/just-for-fun-washington-follis.379555/ a similar vein, I suppose
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    If a fake, why make a fake of an otherwise-unattested name, and especially a name that apparently only shows up ONE other time in recorded archaeology? Seems like it's kind of pointless to make a fake of a strange name, rather than fake some Gordians and call it a day. The non-standard name in itself is what makes me question the fakeness of the coin, or at very least, the validity of the opinion that it is a modern fake.
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    How about a stack of party hats!
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    Here's an unusually long Gallienus IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS PF AVG
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    Basically Stretch Armstrong
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    This is one of my favorite ancient coins - a rather extreme off center strike. That obverse legend clearly states the name, and the reverse clearly shows the mint, is a true stroke of luck.
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    I had a rather terrible centaur with bow that I ended up selling for like $7.
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    I don't know enough about the varieties to know whats good, but these two cost me $12 each.
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    I have a few Lucius Verus. This is probably the most unique one, from Dioshieron.
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    I never knew Verus was divus. So cool. I have yet to get a wedding cake, but my favorite funeral pyre is this atrocity:
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