madhatter

Mine is probably the most common type of Valerian II, but I like it anyway

Here are my specimens of the dude. Two needs cleaning, will happend someday. Still missing one from Rome. Antioch: Viminacium: Samosata:

Heres my Septimius Severus from Emesa RIC 389, if im not wrong.

My big London nose. Not in the best shape but still 🤩

@Steppenfool Well...honestly dunno what to think. But the result is - if I questioned it - Ill pass

@Steppenfool yes, I bought from this seller too, and have nothing but good experience. The discusion is not about the seller - FYI i wrote him short message, to inform what i noticed. The seller guarantee that coin is genuine.

Hi All, Recently, this sestrertius of Maximinus Thrax, was offered at ebay auction. I have to say that big bronzes/ brass are not my best area, so i can not confidently say, only by photos, whether coin is genuine, or not. Аlthough it is quite worn, it has its beauty, but also areas that look strange. But the red flag, for me, was, when 30 min before auctions end, I noticed tiny "R", scratched at obverse, at 5 o clock. This is exactly what I would do, if a forgery/replica coin apear in my collection. Would like to know your thoughts about this coin.

One of my Royal couples:

@Orange Julius Im not 100% sure, but the obverse of mine looks like die match of your Virtus

Philip II provincial fake, i got screwed with while ago. Cheap. These specimens I consider dangerous. Not mine. Photos from different numis groups.

Cleaning in progress. The coin was soaked in demineralized water, for more than a month, but it does not affected green incrustations. So i tried different aproach - since the green stuff was very hard, started with pressing it with unsharp metal object, working on very small area at time. The incrustations started to crack, and i managed to remove big part of them, but reached a point where i cant go any further. Although I used an unsharp tool, it can slip very easy, and to cause scratches. At that moment the coin looked way better, than at start, but still far from the condition i wanted to achieve. Search for a way to proceed lead me to citric acid. Like I said before - I was sure the coin is not a fouree. But I couldnt find a guide anywhere on exactly how to do it - no proportion of DW and citric acid. Many sourced simply say - citric acid will help on silver coin. So i took a shot - squized a lemon, and put the coin in the juice for 5 min. The check on the 5th min show little progress. I left the coin in again, and went to gym 😎 After hour and I half, I went back home, straight to check the coin, hoping that I will not find it all porous. On the contrary - found most of the green mineralization dissapeared, and the brown under it too. It still has some hard dark stuff, on some areas, but for now, im more than happy with the result, and will leave it like it is. If i have to do it again, I will probably skip the mechanical atempt of cleaning, and would go straight to citric acid, if im sure im dealing with high silver content coin.

Well, judging from my pics it does looks bit questionable - fouree or silver. In hand, I would say it is solid silver, and I want to see it cleaned - hoping that underneath the green crystalisation will pop up an uncoroded surface. On the obverse, I managed to remove small green spots, same hard crystalisation type, and it went fine. Still looking for the best method - if possible would like to keep the tonning. How exactly to use EDTA - should it stay in for couple of minutes/hours, or just a drops on the area i want to soften?

Hello All, any advice with cleaning this Antoninus Pius would be much apreciated! The green encrustations are very, very hard. The coin is curently soaked in deionised water, for more than a month, with almost no result on the green stuff.

I do love the portrait of Victorinus on this coin. Reverse is not that bad too. My coin, but not my pic.

@Steppenfool well seller acceps offers...make him one for 110 😄