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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1849891, member: 19463&quot;]Jumping on the bandwagon:&nbsp; Another reason to buy slightly nicer coins is that it is easier to know what you have.&nbsp; The reverse here looks like MARTI PACIFERO a reverse used by Severus Alexander but not Elagabalus.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; I bought it in the belief that, then, I needed an Antioch mint example.&nbsp; I&#039;m not now 100% sure I have a handle on the style differences here but I believe yours is Rome mint.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Coins have a surface.&nbsp; Removal of dirt above the surface is called cleaning and can be a good thing with ancients.&nbsp; When the surface is reached and removed by corrosion or cleaning, no amount of cleaning will improve the situation.&nbsp; Your coin is in this last category except doe a little brown dirt which might wash off but won&#039;t make what is below look better.&nbsp; I would leave it alone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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