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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1849891, member: 19463"]Jumping on the bandwagon: Another reason to buy slightly nicer coins is that it is easier to know what you have. The reverse here looks like MARTI PACIFERO a reverse used by Severus Alexander but not Elagabalus. My example is a little easier to see.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]308873[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Mine is not high grade but cost $21. I bought it in the belief that, then, I needed an Antioch mint example. I'm not now 100% sure I have a handle on the style differences here but I believe yours is Rome mint. </p><p><br /></p><p>Coins have a surface. Removal of dirt above the surface is called cleaning and can be a good thing with ancients. When the surface is reached and removed by corrosion or cleaning, no amount of cleaning will improve the situation. Your coin is in this last category except doe a little brown dirt which might wash off but won't make what is below look better. I would leave it alone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1849891, member: 19463"]Jumping on the bandwagon: Another reason to buy slightly nicer coins is that it is easier to know what you have. The reverse here looks like MARTI PACIFERO a reverse used by Severus Alexander but not Elagabalus. My example is a little easier to see. [ATTACH=full]308873[/ATTACH] Mine is not high grade but cost $21. I bought it in the belief that, then, I needed an Antioch mint example. I'm not now 100% sure I have a handle on the style differences here but I believe yours is Rome mint. Coins have a surface. Removal of dirt above the surface is called cleaning and can be a good thing with ancients. When the surface is reached and removed by corrosion or cleaning, no amount of cleaning will improve the situation. Your coin is in this last category except doe a little brown dirt which might wash off but won't make what is below look better. I would leave it alone.[/QUOTE]
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