Desert patina

Constantius II, took forever to get pics of this, and they still arent the best.


anyone else wana share some? lets see some nice ones

 

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heres a couple more

 

The Constantius II photo is nice. I always liked the contrasts on this Maximianus.

 

Nice coins !
The best example of desert patina in my entire collection would be this one :



Siculo-Punic, AE16
264-241 BC
Head of Tanit left
Horse right and palm tree
SNG Cop. 111
1.75 gr, 16 mm

 

That actually came out of a group of uncleaned coins looking exactly like that.

 

Very nice thanks for sharing

 

Those are nice coins guys - the sand patina makes them very appealing.

Unfortunately I cannot contribute a picture. My only sand-patina coin, a sestertius of Nero with Roma Seated turned out to be a fake.

Sand-patina coins are very appealing, as your examples show. In this respect it is no surprise that some people have developed techniques to artificially add sand to the patina of ancient coins. This is added at the last stage of the patination process, according to what I have read. There are no limits to human ingenuity.......

 

Randy - is that your photo at the top? Its getting a lot better! Now just put it on a white background.

 

Thanks, all (for comments and sharing)

Thanks, yeah its my photo I tried a white background lol, gona try black eventualy. They're still not as clear as I'd like, still messing around with my set up.