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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 7939355, member: 74282&quot;]Welcome to the forum. In the future, consider spacing your posts out a little bit more - only so many posts show up on the front page of the ancients forum here, so every one of these posts is knocking someone else&#039;s post off the page and it&#039;s generally considered bad form to post so many at once and take up so much &quot;real estate&quot;. Don&#039;t worry too much about it this time though, you had no way of knowing, just something to think about in the future.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as your coin here, I&#039;m not a collector of Roman Imperial coins but I do think you have identified it correctly and it does appear to be authentic to me. That said, I do not think you should &quot;restore&quot; it. This coin has already been cleaned as well as it is going to clean up and whoever previously cleaned it was smart to stop when they did. The thing to realize about many of these ancient coins, especially bronze coins, is that by the time you get down to that original shiny metal you&#039;ve gone just a bit too far because some of the reactions that happen at the surface change the metal of the coin, so the patina on a bronze coin is a mixture of compounds from the ground and the original metal of the coin. It&#039;s really hard to be sure from the photos, but at first glance your coin for instance appears to have some red encrustations in addition to darkened original metal and those red encrustations rarely reveal nice surfaces below. If you did manage to get this coin down to that shiny metal you&#039;d likely wind up with an ugly, pitted mess, so it is best to leave the patina on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Additionally, overcleaned bronze coins seem to be very susceptible to bronze disease. I&#039;m sure someone more experienced with cleaning or treating coins for it can explain why this is but it seems like that is a common theme with coins that develop BD.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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