Hi all, enjoying all your great coins posts. Picking up a few here, under your influence. I really love these ancients now. This coin is interesting. it was sand encrusted, and I just took a gamble after I saw parts of the camp gate on the reverse.. I cleaned it up some. Can any of you pros give me an attribution? 19mm,3.35 grams? Thanks in advance. Here's a couple pics to check out. I love this coin...
It looks like a very nice coin! Welcome to the Dark Side! Since you know the ruler I would like to challenge you to attribute it yourself! It's not very hard, trust me, because even I can do it! Go to www.wildwinds.com and go to the Roman tab, find the ruler and go from there. Your coin has a nice clear legend so it won't be hard. If you don't already have them, a scale and calipers are nice to have.
I second JWT's recommendation but also suggest looking for it in Dane/Helvetica's fantastic spreadsheet for campgates. You'll see just how extensive the issue was and you'll also get a better idea of how RIC is organized. The spreadsheet link is on this webpage: http://www.catbikes.ch/coinstuff/coins-ric.htm Scroll to the "campgates" spreadsheet.
Thanks for the feedback . Great coins jwt. Will do as you coin people say. I been trying to use ebay to attribute it. Lol got pretty close. This coin was completely encrusted with deep hard sand. From Bahrain. thanks, I,m off and running to attribute...
Also, nice job cleaning it up without damaging it! There's nothing more annoying to me than a coin with decent details that's scratched up by hasty cleaning.
http://vi.vipr.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBay...0&ittenable=false&domain=ebay.com&descgauge=1 found it...sounds like a bad boy ,Momma had so set him on track it seems . Man these guys were ruthless!...
Patience my man. The key to success... and a bent tip scalpel, using verdicare . And a light touch scraping. And 2hours under an adjustable magnifier...my back was hurting, but ....
It's a different hobby altogether from collecting. I tried my hand at some cleaning and decided it wasn't my cup of tea. I'll cure coins of BD, but I won't clean them from scratch. More power to you!
Cleaning is a great intro to the hobby. Attributing teaches you loads. Once you hold a very nice coin, the urge to clean sort of fades.
@old49er you did do a fine clean job. I did one a few weeks ago just to learn from it. Under the crud was a very low grade maximinus II. The reverse of Jupiter was the only decent part of the coin. Not sure if I will try another but if I do I will be sure it's a better quality before I attempt it.
