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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 25135, member: 1101&quot;]Makes sense to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a low-grade gold proof coin (modern foreign commem) with some “copper spots” where the alloy was not evenly mixed and the copper in the alloy tarnished.&nbsp; I suppose this ancient could be the same thing except it has turned to corrosion.&nbsp; My expectation would be, though, that gold is far more tarnish/corrosion resistant than bronze, so I would not expect to see a clean gold coin and one spot of raging corrosion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I don’t think the coin is gold, but that us just my uneducated opinion.&nbsp; Looks like cleaned bronze to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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