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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;YOC, post: 1846484, member: 58941&quot;]Just my opinion, but I doubt the coin has been retoned,&nbsp; perhaps stored in olive oil? The hoard I found had many coins with this coloration when it came out of the ground.&nbsp; many of the hoard coins still are very dark and almost black.....again perhaps the result of having been stored in olive oil?&nbsp; &nbsp; I think it unlikely also that the coin has been &#039;processed&#039;, because any effective method would remove the green deposits, which are still present.&nbsp; if you are going to re-tone, then you would surely have used a method which stripped both the deposits and the patina, to require retoning.&nbsp; Its a nice coin, if cleaned properly, would be £10-15 in the UK.&nbsp; I think RIC 59 is the one, either an A or a Delta after the CONS, making it a c2 or r2 respectively.&nbsp; Of course as we have discussed here in the past, RIC rarity seems to be an oddity, dependant on which museums have the coin, rather than how many coins are known to exist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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