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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 4787732, member: 87404&quot;]I&#039;d agree with [USER=90248]@Spaniard[/USER]. Horn silver with very dark toning and maybe some other environmental things going on (like maybe it was in a fire?), but I feel it&#039;s genuine, based both on the known seller but also the visible flow lines around the portrait (halo?) and in the fields seen through the blackness. The &quot;patina&quot; is probably natural from sometime in the coins past. I had an AE coin that had a very black, sooty, caked-on layer of stuff on it that I chalked up to being in a fire of some sort (or lost and buried within charcoal or soot) in its past as well. I had done some cleaning of it to reveal more hidden details.</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_20181215_183220321.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><font size="3"> </font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Nero, AE Dupondius</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Struck 62-68 AD, Lugdunum (Lyon) Mint</b></font></p><p><font size="3">Obverse: NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P, Head of Nero, laureate, left; small globe at point of neck.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: VICTORIA AVGVSTI, Victory walking left, holding wreath in right hand and palm in left, S-C in fields, II in exergue.</font></p><p><font size="3">References: RIC I 410; Lyon 81; BMCRE 350; Cohen 346</font></p><p><font size="3">Size: 29mm, 14.84g</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p>Edit: If you want to try to clean it, I&#039;d first try the baking soda dissolved in hot water with the coin sitting on top of aluminum foil approach... I can&#039;t remember how posted about it previously here but I&#039;ve used it on some of my silver coins in need of some maintenance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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