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<p>[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4147432, member: 96898"]I have mixed feelings about green patina in general: if it's hard dark green malachite patina, it's about the most pleasing surfaces a coin can have, but if it's of the the light green flaky variety, it's basically sleeping bronze disease waiting to break out. The former I search for, the letter I avoid like the plague.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two lovely green coins from my collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1071761[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Hadrian, Roman Empire, AE as, 125–128 AD, Rome mint. Obv: HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS; bust of Hadrian, laureate, r. Rev: COS III; Salus, draped, standing r., feeding snake out of patera; in fields flanking, SC. 26mm, 10.2g. Ref: RIC II Hadrian, 669c. Ex AMCC 1, lot 180; ex Justin Lee.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1071762[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">City Commemorative under Constantine I, Roman Empire, AE 3, 330–337 AD, Thessalonica mint. Obv: VRBS ROMA; bust of Roma, helmeted, wearing imperial cloak, l. Rev: She-wolf, standing l., suckling twins; above, two stars; in exergue, SMTS∈. 18mm, 2.25g. Ref: RIC VII Thessalonica 187/229.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4147432, member: 96898"]I have mixed feelings about green patina in general: if it's hard dark green malachite patina, it's about the most pleasing surfaces a coin can have, but if it's of the the light green flaky variety, it's basically sleeping bronze disease waiting to break out. The former I search for, the letter I avoid like the plague. Here are two lovely green coins from my collection: [ATTACH=full]1071761[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Hadrian, Roman Empire, AE as, 125–128 AD, Rome mint. Obv: HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS; bust of Hadrian, laureate, r. Rev: COS III; Salus, draped, standing r., feeding snake out of patera; in fields flanking, SC. 26mm, 10.2g. Ref: RIC II Hadrian, 669c. Ex AMCC 1, lot 180; ex Justin Lee. [ATTACH=full]1071762[/ATTACH] City Commemorative under Constantine I, Roman Empire, AE 3, 330–337 AD, Thessalonica mint. Obv: VRBS ROMA; bust of Roma, helmeted, wearing imperial cloak, l. Rev: She-wolf, standing l., suckling twins; above, two stars; in exergue, SMTS∈. 18mm, 2.25g. Ref: RIC VII Thessalonica 187/229.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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