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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 940555, member: 19463&quot;]The spiky guy looks like Gallienus but it would always help to post both sides since sometimes the reverse will confirm an ID.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Soaemias could be one of two things.&nbsp; If the silver you see is under the red material, the coin is a silver denarius and might respond well to short soaks in lemon juice followed by rubbing between your fingers or brushing with a really soft tooth brush and complete rinsing in clean water.&nbsp; That same technique could wreck the coin if the silver is on top of the red in which case the coin is plated and already cleaned down to base copper which would get rougher looking in an acid like lemon juice.&nbsp; In that case, I&#039;d leave it alone.&nbsp; You might tell looking directly or, better yet, using a stereo microscope.&nbsp; The rough method would be to scratch into the red and see if there is silver underneath or into the silver and see if there is red.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you do decide that the coin is silver under red dirt, go slow and try hard not to scratch the silver.&nbsp; Soaemias is not the cheapest denarius so you want to keep it looking as good as possible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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