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..
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"!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..