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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3637610, member: 85693&quot;]Yeah, I am baffled by the deposits on this.&nbsp; Most of my AEs are petty low grade, so I have a lot of examples of &quot;deposits&quot; at hand, and most of these I figure are genuinely ancient.&nbsp; I&#039;ve read around CT and elsewhere on how forgers artificially patinate fakes - and there are a lot of them on eBay (Eastern Europe) - they usually look pretty obvious - a lurid green chemical bath/cooking. </p><p><br /></p><p>The surfaces on my &quot;Claudius&quot; are very complicated - a reddish patina, traces of what looks like a brown patina in the lettering, with some areas of green.&nbsp; Separately, they all strike me as being ancient, but I am not sure I&#039;ve seen all three together like this, although I&#039;m sure it&#039;s possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, here is an awful Septimius Severus sestertius I recently picked up - it came from a lot of AEs with very similar patinas and lots of wear (I suspect a hoard).&nbsp; It has red/green/brown on it - not like the Claudius exactly, but along the same lines.&nbsp; Despite everything, I love the portrait on this one.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>(I wanted to show it to you anyway, Doug, since you have so many nice SS coins in your collection - I&#039;m not 100% on the attribution, so if you see a blunder, please let me know - there is nothing left of the legends, so I had to struggle more than usual):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]976234[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Septimius Severus Æ Sestertius</b></p><p><b>(195 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint </b></p><p>[L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP V], laureate head right / [P M TR P III COS II P P] S C Minerva standing left, holding spear in right hand and round shield at side in left hand.</p><p>RIC 689 (no drapery on shoulder)</p><p>(20.33 grams / 26 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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