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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4529543, member: 19463&quot;]Not all but it is a common practice in some circles to upgrade rough coins.&nbsp; Our favorite expert on the matter was TIF who posted a group of later Alexandria tets she got with (facial) makeup applied.&nbsp; This thread is interesting!</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-fun-new-lot-of-alexandrian-tetradrachms.245794/#post-1907498" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-fun-new-lot-of-alexandrian-tetradrachms.245794/#post-1907498">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-fun-new-lot-of-alexandrian-tetradrachms.245794/#post-1907498</a>&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not pretend to be able to spot them all of the time but if it looks like greasy flesh colored makeup and can be smeared with a q-tip it is not likely original.&nbsp; The problem is that there are other ways of adding sand patina and some are better than others. However it is also possible that a real sand patina was selectively cleaned away from high points making the coin look too good to be true.&nbsp; I like sand patinas and probably have a few I do not recognize but would rather have applied sand than bondo and tooling.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know what AJ calls a &#039;well pedigreed&#039; coin but the two below have been mine since 1999 and 2001 (well over 10 years) and look today as they did then.&nbsp; Whoever gets them after I&#039;m dead can strip them if they wish. I consider them original.&nbsp; I doubt the practice was invented in the last ten years.&nbsp; 50?&nbsp; 100???</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1121904[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1121903[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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