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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3268924, member: 96864&quot;]Alright, I&#039;ve got some better pictures. If it&#039;s fake, the value of the Himera Litra oughta cover the cost of the lesson. I&#039;ve gotten spoiled by obtaining special antiquities at good prices from diggers who don&#039;t know what they have but shouldn&#039;t expect the same in the far more dangerous and competitive world of coins. Anyway, in these pics you can see apparent patina-smoothing in fields and the crud in the cracks, some of which kinda show the somewhat laminated appearance I saw under magnification. There also appears to be a small spot of bronze disease on the edge. On some of the high points the black copper oxide (or artificial patina) seems to have flaked off, like on Hephaestus&#039; right leg and the letters of the ethnic.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=80556]@David@PCC[/USER] Yes that blog is what I had came across as well. They seem to really know their stuff, so I will probably need to impose upon them for an opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]861764[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]861765[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]861766[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]861767[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]861768[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]861769[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]861770[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]861771[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]861772[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]861773[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I appreciate your opinions, even if they break my heart <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ( <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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