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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silphium Addict, post: 24843544, member: 116882&quot;][USER=26430]@Curtis[/USER] - nice Carthage El shekel</p><p>I have seen similar red deposits on some of my Carthaginian AV/EL coins that appears to be different from the hard red deposits of the silver coins in this thread. I also usually leave them alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, here is one of my Carthage gold coins that I was able to easily remove the red deposits with distilled water and a toothpick:</p><p>Original auction image</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1591520[/ATTACH]</p><p>My image after cleaning</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1591522[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carthage AV 1-1/2 shekel</p><p>264-255 BC</p><p>10.28 g, 12 h</p><p>O: head Tanit left</p><p>R: horse standing right with head tuned back left</p><p>J&amp;L group IX 383</p><p><br /></p><p>Initially, I decided to remove just a few of the larger deposits I found distracting, like right under Tanit&#039;s nose and around the lips. However, they &quot;flaked&quot; off so easily that I removed the others, but you can still see traces of where some were because I did not want to chance damaging the surface.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the deposits on my coin were most likely residual soil since they were all in recesses instead of corrosion like on the silver coins. This coin is almost certainly an unrecorded example from the Tunis 1948 hoard IGCH 2271. Supposedly, all coins of this type (except one in the BnF) are from this hoard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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