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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3035758, member: 19463&quot;]I asked the magnetic question back when my web pages were new and never got a good answer.&nbsp; The link above is as good as anything I have seen.&nbsp; Sorry, I know nothing on the matter.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000b3">&quot;This poor little coin almost went unsold on eBay but I took pity on it and gave it a home. It is not a pretty example of an AE 18 of Pautalia showing Geta and Asclepius. The only thing than makes it special is that it is weakly attracted to a magnet. Bronze coins should not be magnetic. Why is this one? I would guess that it contains a bit of iron (perhaps even an iron core). This could be an accident or something as remote as a special medicinal issue containing material from a meteorite fall. (I said it was <i>remote</i>.) As a collector of meteorites (which contain iron), I was attracted to this coin. If you have any ancient coins that are magnetic, please write.&quot;</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000b3"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000b3">[ATTACH=full]757110[/ATTACH] </span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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