Finally Cleaned Some of My ancients

Those cleaned up really well Britannia!

 

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Looks like you did a good job,it's easy to go too far on these coins.

 

They turned out very well! Sometimes there just isn't much left under the dirt. Not in this case though.

 

I don't recall seeing the 'SECUNDA" spelled out before...otherwise they appear to be decent coins although somewhat common examples of Constantine, Valens and Valentianus---but usually worth at least $5-$10.00 to the right buyer and mostly of SISCIA mint.....


My examples are similar but appear to have a few Alexander mints mixed in as well.

You seem to have done unusually well, since at least half of a typical uncleaned lot are blank slugs and another 1/4 of very poor grade.....and only about 3-5 coins are 'keepers'.

 

Officina numbers are spelled out on issues from the Rome mint. See this site for more about them:

http://esty.ancients.info/RomeOfficina/Officina.html

 

Thanks again 'Val' I bookmarked your site again...

I hope @britannia40 notices it for help in identifying his coins

 

well not all turned out well. these are the group I just photo'd that were beat up

 

thanks for the information and link. there are soooo many varieties to these things.

 

Brit,
Nice cleaning job!

Doug Hill

 

Even your B-side failures are as good, or better than most of the self-cleaned examples that I've seen ... again, that actually looked like it might have been a bit fun (congrats and thanks for keeping us in the cleaning-loop ... it was exciting)

cheers

 

Wow, looks like you had far more success than I did. By your initial post, I'm guessing that you got your coins from here. Care to share as the quality of your uncleared raws look far far nicer than those I picked up.

 

i got them from an ebay auction over a year ago. i don't remember the guys name

 

great job cleaning! your "bad ones" would be "the great ones" from the usual uncleaned lot. so looks like you got a very nice group of late roman broze coins, and an A Pius..cool.

stevex was correct about your long haired woman, it is a veiled constantine the great to commemorate his death. here's mine, this is one of the best coin i ever got out of an uncleaned lot, total anomaly.

 

I totally disagree! I think you did a great job. It look like you didn't take them down to bare metal, which is commendable. Well done!

 

thanks but a lot of the work was done by my significant other. she has more patience LOL.

Thanks for the info. These are very hard to research than normal world coins. the silver one has me really stumped due to poor details.

 

i think you AP may be like this one at vcoins or very similar, but i'm less certain of this however...


https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/mo...atches_and_minor_porosity/187562/Default.aspx

 

thanks I would have never found this on my own. this was the first lot of ancients I bought. I have 2 others but I bought them pre-cleaned. I truthfully find it overwhelming to look these pieces up.

 

+1 to this. You did a great job not damaging the patina on these.

 

Google search will usually turn up an attribution, or at least narrow it down a lot, if the legends are readable.

 

Great job, they look great. What techniques did you use? I'm new to the cleaning as well and am trying different ways.