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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 3165524, member: 96898&quot;]Did what you see roughly look like this?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]813614[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]813615[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Kingdom of Elymais, Kamnaskires-Orodes, early-mid 2nd c. AD, AE Drachm. Obv: Bearded bust facing, tufts on the side of the head. Pellet and crescent above anchor to the right (obscured by corrosion). Rev: Dashes. Ref: van&#039;t Haaff 12.3.1-2A2. 16mm, 3.8g, Ex Numismatik Lanz, Munich.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">A couple of my Elymaean AE coins show these reddish layers, and I also wonder what type of corrosion it is and what it tells us about the alloy. I bought my coins from different dealers over a period of time, and thus don&#039;t assume this to be specific to a single hoard or issue.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">I just checked the depicted coin with a fridge magnet and it apparently isn&#039;t magnetic, which speaks against a significant ammount of ferrous metal in the alloy. Yet, my magnet also is rather bad. Did you perhaps get a different result?</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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