alexander severus, nicaea, unpublished, 4.5o gr AND, during the cleaning process... and, SALZBURG DUCAT, 1681..3.50g
That's really cool that it is unpublished! And thanks for including an in-process photo too. What tools do you use to clean them? Or is that your cleaning guy?
its cleaning guy, for sure..sometimes, for his cleaning services he charging a little more, but worth every cent..he cleaning under microscope..slow process..
Correct me if I'm wrong, @galba68, but I assume the portrait and fields were nearly completely encrusted and the "during the cleaning process" photo is after the portrait and fields have been cleared of the concretions. Surely you two (Mat and Ominus) don't mean you prefer nearly unidentifiable roundish flat disks of dried dirt?? The bronze is untouched. The first two pictures show the greenish patina. It's just darker in the first two photos and that seems to be from differences in lighting.
Do you mean uncleaned as in having the dirt still attached? Like if it was all like this? *Same question and clarification as TIF above...
TIF, its just lighting..it was completely encrusted..but, in my experience, provincial coins from nicaea have a fantastic patina, and l don't know why..l wish to find more often imperial bronze coins made of same quality bronze..
JUSTIN LEE, read this ..very informative.. http://www.romanorum.com/docs/A Method for cleaning ancient coins. Romanorum.com.pdf
I'm still not understanding, or perhaps you aren't. Do you mean you wish the person who cleaned the coin had stopped after he cleaned the obverse portrait and field, leaving most of the legend encased in dirt?
