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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 7589414, member: 82549&quot;]First of all, I think the coating you describe is actually just the residue left over from electrolysis. I have zapped many uncleaned coins back in the day, and I often see this on coins that started out with very thick patinas. No one bothered trying to repatinate them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Roma said these were from a large German collection. I think they probably belonged to an importer who bought coins from Eastern Europe by the thousands. He or she probably saved the best ones, sold or wholesaled nicer ones to other dealers and collectors, and set the roughest ones aside. Then every now and then (s)he probably subjected these set-asides to electrolysis. The nicer ones were picked out and the culls just tossed into a bin somewhere. When the collector decided to sell, these were dug out and added to the mix.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can definitely get your money&#039;s worth out of these by giving them to kids. I cleaned uncleaned coins for many years when I first started collecting ancients. After 10 years, I had a large collection of coins like these. One year, I put them all in 2 x 2 holders, wrote what little identifying information I could about them on the holders (&quot;Ancient Roman coin, ca. 340 - 350 A.D.&quot; or &quot;Constantius II, A.D. 337-361, FEL TEMP REPARATIO - Soldier spearing fallen enemy horseman&quot;) and gave them away to trick-or-treaters at Halloween. The expression on the faces of many of these kids, who can&#039;t believe that someone would actually give them a real, ancient Roman coin, will more than justify your expense.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=10613]@Victor_Clark[/USER], although I like most of what you wrote, I strongly disagree with the term &quot;garbage&quot; in your description. Worn, beat up, whatever--they are still 1600-year-old pieces of history. Someone will love them. I used to sell lots like these on eBay under &quot;Educational Materials.&quot; I might get $5.00 or $7.00 for 100 of them, but many of them wound up in high school history classrooms where they served honorably. In the future, please consider replacing &quot;garbage&quot; with &quot;culls&quot; or &quot;collector-rejects&quot; or something less weighted and judgemental. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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