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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wolves69, post: 180909, member: 7322&quot;]I&#039;ve asked the question on another thread, but I forgot to subscribe and can&#039;t remember which one it was.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a bunch of roman digs that I&#039;m trying to identify.&nbsp; Since most are slugs, they don&#039;t really have value, so I&#039;ve decided to clean.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never heard of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) cleaning.&nbsp; How does this work, and what type of coins does this work best on?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My year old experiment has ended.&nbsp; I took 10 unidentifiable ancients that were encrusted with vertigree and other encrustation and put them in a glass bowl and covered them with olive oil.&nbsp; Every other month, I took a cotton swab and rubbed over the faces.&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, after a year, the olive oil was a deep green (all the copper vertigree)...and lots of ants....well, a lot of coins are now identifiable to a certain degree but they still need a little harsher cleaning...however right now none look harshly cleaned.&nbsp; So far, here&#039;s what I can best determine....(the coins were bought with little or no hope of identification because of the wear and crust)</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW: Olive Oil does nothing to silver....</p><p>1.&nbsp; Byzantine copper Follis(???), Front has two seated men (Jesus and king?).&nbsp; On the left some letters....IKO, and on the right ...vsp?The detail of the seated men is pretty clear...The rev has a big &quot;M&quot; with Anno on left, and the romman numerals &quot;II&quot; on the right.&nbsp; Theres a good chance this can be attributed with some work.</p><p>2.&nbsp; Roman provincial copper.&nbsp; Between the size of a quarter and half.&nbsp; Young Roman empror facing right with radiant head.&nbsp; The reverse has another head facing right.&nbsp; Looks female, and smaller then the ceasar.&nbsp; Has some sort of tiera?&nbsp; Its not the Greek version...Theres little hope for this one since the back is almost shaved.&nbsp; When the oil was removed, I thought there was a counterstamp on the back, but I need a magnifying glass; however, I think its just bad corrosion.</p><p>3.&nbsp; Quarter sized Greek Copper.&nbsp; Beautiful high relief portrait of a lady facing right.&nbsp; Her hair is pulled in a bun.&nbsp; The portrait is circled by little dots...the back is the typical Zeus sitting .&nbsp; It appears he&#039;s holding Nike? (small winged angel?).&nbsp; A few letters might be able to be made out.</p><p>4.&nbsp; AE3/4 Constitine.&nbsp; &nbsp; He&#039;s facing right, and has a small headband.&nbsp; Some lighter color vertigree still exists, but the eye and &quot;crown&quot; detail is pretty clear.&nbsp; The reverse has a wreath, and letters inside.&nbsp; With a little more cleaning, it might be able to be made out.</p><p>5. Roman AE4.&nbsp; Again, I would think Constitine; however, its a little too round.&nbsp; Some letters might be made out with a little thought and cleaning.&nbsp; The Reverse has to soldiers with standards.&nbsp; However, the back can&#039;t be read anymore.&nbsp; </p><p>6.&nbsp; An irregular shapped Byzantine half follis.&nbsp; Front has a Roman Emperor figure facing right (annastasias?).&nbsp; The letters ANYSPPSV are clearly visible.&nbsp; The back has a beautifully (although partial &quot;K&quot;, with something that looks like a Mason&#039;s compas to the right.&nbsp; Definitely researchable.&nbsp; </p><p>7.&nbsp; Small Greek copper coin.&nbsp; I had hopes for this one, but the cleaning actually took away some of the design.&nbsp; The front appears to look like a femal looking right.&nbsp; I&#039;m not working on this one.</p><p>8.&nbsp; Small ALexander 1/2 disme size.&nbsp; Alexander is facing right and he appears to have a lions main...the back&nbsp; has a figure...lOL its either a charging bull to the right (horns down) or a bumble bee flying...possibilites....</p><p>9.&nbsp; A Byzantine follis.&nbsp; Same size as #1.&nbsp; Obv..Two people standing holding a cross between them.&nbsp; It appears one is the Virgin Mary, the other????The rev has an image of Christ.&nbsp; No letters are visible. Similar to <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/1152-AD-Byzantine-Coin-of-Manuel-I-Virgin-Mary-cross_W0QQitemZ220067696728QQihZ012QQcategoryZ3364QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/1152-AD-Byzantine-Coin-of-Manuel-I-Virgin-Mary-cross_W0QQitemZ220067696728QQihZ012QQcategoryZ3364QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/1152-AD-Byzantine-Coin-of-Manuel-I-Virgin-Mary-cross_W0QQitemZ220067696728QQihZ012QQcategoryZ3364QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem</a> </p><p>10. A greek quarter sized copper.&nbsp; Tyche? facing right.&nbsp; Rev. Athena facing left, had outstreached, with shild on the ground leaning up against her left leg.&nbsp; No letters are visible.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, the research is a labor of love.&nbsp; Nobody would be interested in the pieces because of their condition, but it sure is fun.&nbsp; Now I have to dig out my books.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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