So I'll admit it I take risks on buying uncleaned lots on ebay. The recent lot that got me the silver julia but today I pulled one of my favorite coins that I've been wanting for my collection. First two pics is how it arrived and second set if after restoration. In decent shape, in my opinion.
Nice Find! I nearly always buy uncleaned lots, best i found are a septemius denarius, a lot of fourrees, a Herennius Etruscus AE 27 and a lot of high grade bronze, OH and the coin i have as my profile pic. Thomas,
Very nice. If you don't mind, where do you get you uncleaned lots? Do you use eBay? I like doing the cleaning and finding something interesting.
Thank you, and I tend to get them from ebay. No particular seller as of yet, I just tend to find a lot that has 3+ days before it ends and stare at the pictures so see if I can't possibly make something out. I tried one or two users that had bulks of coins to see if I could stay steady with them but they seemed kind of cherry picked in my opinion.
I bought some one time years ago. I found one that was a bronze that someone had platted in silver in the time period that it was used. Experts told me that it happened from time to time back then.
Here is the link to when I posted the coin. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/could-this-be-ancient-silver.346948/
