The surfaces on that MA dupondius are amazing. I assume the coin has been worked on after being found, but even so, that level of preservation is incredible.
How marvelous it must be to be able to add coins like this to your collection by going outdoors and finding them, in the exact spots where they were lost millennia before. I have tasted enough of that thrill of discovery while out detecting to be able to at least imagine what that must be like. If I lived near such fields and had access to them, you'd see much less of me online, and I would spend most of my days caked in mud.
