Extreme Coin Makeover - Enter the Buffer

I got this coin which was completely encrusted in minerals and oxides. Just awful.



After hours upon hours in lye, vinegar, lemon juice, and every other corrosive substance I could find, it gave me nothing.

So, at wit's end, I took it to the buffing wheel, and the results are lustrously lackluster.

This proves that sometimes, your best effort just isn't good enough.



Sort of looks like a dupondius of Nero, but the text I believe is ---VSCAES---- on the obverse, do not Nero. Maybe a Flavian?
Might even be Germanicus. Who knows.
Reverse is tentatively a wreathed S-C.

Please post pics of your biggest failures.

 

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Large SC on the back coupled with that portrait- almost certainly Germanicus

 

My thought as well. I think I can just make out: .... VS CAESAR TI AUG around the portrait.

One of my biggest failures is ID-ing other people's coins.

 

Well, if you've only got one dollar and you absolutely NEED a Germanicus...

 

Looks like a good match to me - Germanicus posthumous by Claudius