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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8053829, member: 110350&quot;]This gives me a chance to complain again about the way in which Athena Numismatics spoils the appearance of so many perfectly nice ancient silver coins by applying an artificial blue patina to them.&nbsp; (Never mind the artifical desert patina on bronze coins; that&#039;s a separate issue.) An example is this Hadrian Aegyptos coin, which looked like this when I received it:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1394928[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But looks like this now, after going through a process involving distilled water and baking soda that Brad Bowlin explained to me, after much of the patina had already faded on its own after a couple of months:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1394927[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So it appears that Athena&#039;s artificial patina doesn&#039;t ruin coins permanently. I fail to understand why it seems to appeal to so many buyers. I think it&#039;s both ugly and tremendously obvious as being artificial. But enough buyers must like that look for Salem to keep doing it -- just go to Athena on V-Coins and look for ancient silver! A few examples of items currently for sale:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://images.vcoins.com/product_image/18/3/6/3Qkew8Cr7Gcaa5ANTbM9S4tmgK22c6.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://images.vcoins.com/product_image/18/G/6/GYx34Rjyc6LXApL85SsQCbn27EYdn9.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://images.vcoins.com/product_image/18/C/6/Cf8is38WLdc6ar7ES2d54pAjZ2MeYN.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://images.vcoins.com/product_image/18/T/6/T3y3r2XS67Zkfa9YsFa5i4RzGb8sxp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://images.vcoins.com/product_image/18/2/6/2c3SndA493mGK59e7wBZqoW6Nf5XEL.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t try to tell me that any of these coins acquired that blue patina naturally! (Yes, I understand that it&#039;s possible for that color to appear naturally. But what a remarkable coincidence that so many of Salem&#039;s coins managed to do so! Plus, of course, the blue patina on mine would not have largely disappeared on its own within a few months, before I treated it in any way, if it had been a natural patina.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Next: another coin with its appearance damaged, permanently or otherwise, in modern times.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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