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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Noah Worke, post: 24493618, member: 115032&quot;]Hi everyone, my order for some uncleaned Roman coins just came in from Nero coins, and I got to work right away. Nine of the ten that I ordered are currently soaking in distilled water and it&#039;s going quite well, and the last one didn&#039;t really look like it needed a soak. I could already attribute it and the buildup on it looked like the same stuff on <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-should-i-clean-this-large-cent.396443/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/how-should-i-clean-this-large-cent.396443/">this</a> coin. I used MS-70 on this new one and it worked some, enough for me to attribute it, but I need to get more of the buildup off to properly conserve the coin. It&#039;s a posthumous issue of the deified Constantine that I found pretty quickly in the RIC (given that there&#039;s only two of them). What gave it away as a posthumous issue right out of the box was the veiled head that I&#039;d recognize anywhere.[ATTACH=full]1552091[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1552092[/ATTACH]</p><p>VN MR; Constantine, veiled, stg. r.. O1/17; veiled hd. r.. AE4, X.XXg</p><p>I haven&#039;t weighed it yet, I&#039;ll save that for when the conservation is complete.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; I will admit, I don&#039;t know what the &quot;O1/17&quot; means, I&#039;m just copying from the RIC. I&#039;m happy to have one, it&#039;ll make it easy to attribute these coins once they&#039;re done soaking. I&#039;ve seen some radiate crowns and one that looks like an issue of Theodosius which I&#039;m excited about. These coins provide a fun and inexpensive way to bolster my collection of late imperial bronzes; I only paid about 45 dollars for these ten which figures to 4 and a half dollars per coin which I can&#039;t complain about. That&#039;s all for now, I&#039;ll update regularly with more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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