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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 2069288, member: 9204&quot;]This tan sort of color is a very common patina for lead. I&#039;d say its about the equivalent of a nice green color on a bronze. I also have seen them in varying degrees of dark gray, and even some with a greenish tint.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/normal_DSC_0251.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/normal_00055x00.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If the seller has a halfway decent photo, I usually just use theirs. I hate to bug my friends with my own coins, when they have hundreds of others to work on every day. What - you didn&#039;t think I actually shot these myself? HA!</p><p><br /></p><p>But this one is actually quite accurate to how the piece looks in hand. There are a lot of factors that go into how a coin patinates. Some of us are quite familiar with how bronze gets its color, but lead is an entirely different beast. I agree with you that the underlying composition of the metal has a great effect, but so does the soil in which the coin was deposited, as well as the cleaning method once it comes out of the ground. The modern-day environment in which the coin is stored can also affect color. Until I see metallurgical analyses of these pieces, I would hesitate to attribute it solely to metal content.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Which coins have you bought? The vast, vast majority of them are really quite accurate. Silver can sometimes be a little too blue in the printed sales, which I think is so they appear correct in the catalog. Bronze can be a little dark at times and may have been over corrected.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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