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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2033444, member: 42773&quot;]Tough call on this one. I&#039;m going to go with real, but stripped of patina. There&#039;s nothing in the style that&#039;s overtly un-Roman. The fabric is odd, but the reason is obvious - the coin was harshly cleaned and re-patinated with a copper darkener. The coin might have been so heavily encrusted that the cleaner had no choice. You can see the bare bronze showing in several places, and the toning looks exactly like what you get from a darkener - I know, I&#039;ve used copper darkeners to touch up spots on coins after I&#039;ve dug out some BD.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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