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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2128512, member: 19463&quot;]While I agree with Bing, Ardatirion said it better than I have heard before.&nbsp; We clean with hope just like people buy lottery tickets.&nbsp; You have to realize that most of them will be trash.&nbsp; Once in a while you might get a small time winner and sometimes someone hits the jackpot.&nbsp; It is not the hobby for people who frustrate easily.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the facts:&nbsp; Someone found the coins and sold them to a wholesaler whose job it is to separate the coins into ones he wants to sell as is and those he thinks can be improved and sold as premium items.&nbsp; I was once told that some of these guys can identify the major categories by feel.&nbsp; They know what types of dirt come off easily and what type doesn&#039;t.&nbsp; Which group do you think they send out as uncleaned and what type do they send to a professional batch processor to turn lumps into coins?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;winner&#039; you show strikes me as worth under $5 retail assuming the other side is equal.&nbsp; Below is a low end cleaned coin I bought for $5.</p><p>Julian II</p><p>[ATTACH=full]404864[/ATTACH] </p><p>It is a different workshop from yours but both are Siscia mint of the M in reverse field series.&nbsp; I have no idea how many slugs you had to buy to get the winner you show and I have no idea which of the possible emperors in on the obverse of your coin.&nbsp; The other of the two choices is shown below but from the series without the M in the reverse.&nbsp; It was also $5 (same day from same junk box).&nbsp; I had to look at a <u>lot</u> of junky coins to find these two but I did not have to buy them.</p><p>Constantius II&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]404866[/ATTACH] </p><p>Cleaners get the thrill of the hunt by cleaning and have a remote chance of a winner.&nbsp; I get the thrill by sorting through thousands of coins at shows and online but only buy a few that I decide I want.&nbsp; The chance of a winner requires the seller having missed finding it and selling it for more.&nbsp; These are all common &#039;junk&#039; coins.&nbsp; Which way do you want to get your junk?&nbsp; Bing and I have our answer.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For the coins you already have, we might be able to help more if we saw photos of the candidates.&nbsp; Some will clean just by soaking in water; some will not clean with nuclear weapons.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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