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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2976397, member: 19463&quot;]I have serious personal conflict when i comes to silvered coins.&nbsp; I know they were issued that way and high grade examples should retain silver but my personal aesthetic preferences often favors coins of other colors.&nbsp; I am particularly displeased with high grade coins with blotchy remaining silver and would rather have them brown.&nbsp; That is not a high minded numismatic attitude but just the way I am.</p><p><br /></p><p>Diocletian with a bit of silver and red blended the way I prefer:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]731386[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Probus with a lot more silver but not &#039;artistically&#039; deployed on the reverse:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]731387[/ATTACH]&nbsp; </p><p>I would not have bought this Probus &#039;silver sneezer&#039; were it not for the less common obverse legend.&nbsp; I would prefer the coin with no silver but we sometimes take what we find.&nbsp; PERPETVO IMP C PROBO P AVG</p><p>[ATTACH=full]731390[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Probus looks good in green, too.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]731393[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>...as does Diocletian.&nbsp; Very few silvered coins develop really nice green surfaces so I suspect the silver content retards patina development.&nbsp; This speckled surface coin is as good green as I have for Diocletian. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]731394[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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