After cleaning...

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by galba68, Dec 9, 2022.

  1. galba68

    galba68 Well-Known Member

    Unfortunately, I only have a photo of this coin in a *group photo*..This coin is on the bottom right of the picture..
    Licinius follis, 5.5o gr., Genio..

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  3. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

    Nice, with some silvering left on it too, from the looks of it.
     
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  4. kountryken

    kountryken Well-Known Member

    As always, @galba68, I'm amazed at how well they clean up. Keep on what you're doing! "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"!
     
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  5. Inspector43

    Inspector43 Celebrating 75 Years Active Collecting Supporter

    It is fun to bring them back to life. I have cleaned and cataloged 150 plus. And, it still amazes me how well they can turn out. Thanks for posting this.
     
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  6. Ryan McVay

    Ryan McVay Well-Known Member

    Here's an interesting cleaning job that puts this coin into the Triton action. This is a extremely heavy coin from Nysa. This is Hadrian and Men holding a patera offering over an alter- which is not shown. This is a obv/rev combo is typical for Nysa (but examples are still fairly hard to find).
    CNG does add "smoothing" to the description..but wow..a difference from the original sale for Nauman Num.
     
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  7. Nicholas Molinari

    Nicholas Molinari Well-Known Member

    Excellent work!
     
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  8. BurrosCoins

    BurrosCoins Well-Known Member

    Wow. What a difference.

    Newby question: Would this be considered restoration rather than cleaning? I would think this improves the coins since the were heavily encrusted and not distinguishable.
     
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  9. Ryan McVay

    Ryan McVay Well-Known Member

    There are several threads on here that hash this out. The terms you need to be familiar with are smoothing, tooling and cleaning. Instead of repeating you can to a quick search on tooling.
     
  10. BurrosCoins

    BurrosCoins Well-Known Member

    thank you.
     
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  11. Nicholas Molinari

    Nicholas Molinari Well-Known Member

    I would refer to this coin as expertly cleaned.
     
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  12. galba68

    galba68 Well-Known Member

    This is a photo of a coin from a few years ago, where my friend applied only the cleaning..Unfortunately, I do not have photo of reverse image..

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  13. BurrosCoins

    BurrosCoins Well-Known Member

    That’s amazing how much more detail is visible after the cleaning. Very nice coin
     
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