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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 1500786, member: 39084&quot;]Initially the patina of bronze coins was a difficult adjustment for me, since I couldn&#039;t judge a &quot;good&quot; patina from a poor one, and I wasn&#039;t sure that I even liked the greenish patina that is characteristic of high quality Roman bronzes.&nbsp; One of the coins that I almost declined was this Claudius sestertius, due to its mottled patina:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]192561.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>CLAUDIUS&nbsp; 10 B.C. - 54 A.D.</p><p>AE Sestertius (29.21 g.)&nbsp; Rome 41 - 54 A.D.</p><p>TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP Laureate head right.&nbsp; Rev. SPES - AVGVSTA&nbsp; Spes, draped, advancing left, flower in right hand, raising skirt with left, S C in exergue.</p><p>RIC 99</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the detail in both the obverse and reverse is very high, and I&#039;ve even grown to like its patina -- in person, the mottling is much less apparent than in the picture.&nbsp; So I&#039;ve pretty much made the adjustment to bronze coins having a dark-to-dark-green patina and understand that this is usually a desirable feature of those coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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