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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3781938, member: 19463"]Obviously you saw the bearded portrait right since you got it right side up. You have nothing to lose destroying the coin by severe cleaning. Many, many years ago, I took a holed, really terrible and unidentifiable as size coin and carried it with my keys for several years. After about five years of pocket change and keys, I saw a portrait emerge that I believed to be a provincial of Septimius Severus but no reverse. That portrait disappeared in a few more years so I stopped carrying it. Fewer people carry a lot of pocket change as was fashionable 50 years ago but you can put a coin like that in a rock tumbler (with pennies?) and might find something to see.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3781938, member: 19463"]Obviously you saw the bearded portrait right since you got it right side up. You have nothing to lose destroying the coin by severe cleaning. Many, many years ago, I took a holed, really terrible and unidentifiable as size coin and carried it with my keys for several years. After about five years of pocket change and keys, I saw a portrait emerge that I believed to be a provincial of Septimius Severus but no reverse. That portrait disappeared in a few more years so I stopped carrying it. Fewer people carry a lot of pocket change as was fashionable 50 years ago but you can put a coin like that in a rock tumbler (with pennies?) and might find something to see.[/QUOTE]
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