When acquiring this silver Phoenician stater, I enjoyed the face of Melkart on obverse, as well as the Phoenician inscription on reverse. Believed to be a civic issue of mid fourth century, the coin has serious corrosion on the edge on the upper left side of reverse. With naked eye, I thought it was cut there. Otherwise, the coin is in VF condition. My question is whether such corrosion could cause a loss of weight up to 1 g. or a little bit more? In fact, the coin weighs 9.1 g. only. I managed to scan and also shoot the coin on both obverse and reverse. Your opinions are of great help and outcome to me. Thanks.. Maybe I shouldn't have cleaned it so much.
That coin has seen better days. Not sure what's going on with it, but corrosion was only one of it's problems. This oil painting captures nicely my reaction to your pictures of the coin. I think I'll make it my new avatar as I'm due for a change.
