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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8262009, member: 110226&quot;]That&#039;s a beautiful coin!&nbsp; Your coin is one of the lucky ones.&nbsp; It is not corroded and the strike is very good.&nbsp; Yes, it has been cleaned, as noted by others, but the overall state of its preservation is such that the cleaning was, in all likelihood, quite basic.&nbsp; No, I do not think this coin has been re-toned.&nbsp; It is re-toning on its own, and if it was not in the slab and stored in a paper envelope, the toning would create a darker brown over time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a less fortunate follis of his, year 33, a newly arrived coin.&nbsp; Towards the middle of Justinian&#039;s reign the flans began to shrink, the dies were mostly crudely engraved and the strikes usually pretty poor.&nbsp; This coin, in addition to those factors was probably stored as part of a hoard, buried in some bag or pot that disintegrated over the centuries, allowing water and various chemicals to interact with the surfaces, and causing abrasions, although these might have occurred during its circulation, creating what we see today.&nbsp; And, yes, this coin was cleaned, but not to the point where the original deposits are unduly disturbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Justinian I, 559 AD</p><p>AE Follis</p><p>Constantinople</p><p>Year 33</p><p>Officina Δ</p><p>Sear 163</p><p>16.2 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1457187[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone is interested in a fictional work on the reign of Justinian I, from the perspective of his main general, Flavius Belisarius, Robert Graves&#039; novel, <i>Count Belisarius</i> is a good read.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nice coins posted![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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