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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 8268399, member: 91461&quot;]When I first started collecting ancients I loved identifying bronze coins that I&#039;d clean off with electrolysis, which I do not recommend except in dire cases.</p><p>This Hera (surprisingly one of the harder of the 12 Olympians to acquire on coin) from Argos, as in Jason, was what looked like a rock. I wasn&#039;t even sure there was a coin there, but it had come from a lot that I was already very happy with. So, what can you do?</p><p>But sure enough patience and persistence pay off:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459139[/ATTACH]</p><p>Argolis, Argos</p><p><br /></p><p>Æ Dichalkon. Circa 280270/60</p><p>BCE Head of Hera</p><p>right, wearing stephane inscribed</p><p>APΓE/Athena</p><p>Promachos left. BCD</p><p>Peloponnesos1100-4;</p><p>3.90g, 18mm 6h.</p><p>Very Fine</p><p><br /></p><p>This took a loooong time. And I think I went a touch too far, as indicated by the visible pitting on the reverse. But how excited and lucky was I with that lovely portrait coming out more and more each treatment<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Anyways, not much has changed in the fact that I LOVE identifying ancients. But now it&#039;s rare ancients that I come across that are miss identified by the auction house=savings to Ryro that Iget excited about. Though, I no longer attempt to clean, led alone use electrolysis, my coins. Other than extreme situating like BD or horn silver (which I haven&#039;t had much luck with).</p><p>Here&#039;s one I am still giggling about.</p><p>Listed by Heritage as having a oenochoe (jug of wine), when anyone that knows anything about this series knows that it&#039;s all nautical related and clearly a sea anemone:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459147[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Q. Crepereius M.f. Rocus</b> (69 BC). AR serratus denarius (19mm, 1h). NGC Choice Fine, bankers marks. Rome. Draped bust of Amphitrite right, seen from behind; sea anemone (erroneously listed as an oenochoe by Heritage) left, I right / Q•CREPER•M•F / ROCVS, Neptune driving biga of hippocamps right, brandishing trident in right hand, reins in left; I above. Crawford 399/1b. Sydenham 796. Crepereia 1. Ex: CNG 261 lot 239 Aug 2011, Auctiones GMBH #67 March 2020, Purchased from Heritage Feb 2022. From the Werner Collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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