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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GregH, post: 2735642, member: 75936&quot;]I purchased this Trebonianus Gallus provincial back in the day, because I thought it looked cool. As was pointed out to me by my learned colleagues here, the gunk on the coin isn&#039;t some weird natural encrustation, but sand that has been thickly added during a restoration attempt (does anybody know how to remove this?)[ATTACH=full]623288[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I do like the type, but would prefer to find a more &quot;honest&quot; coin to replace this with.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other &quot;oops&quot; coins would be a couple from Zurqieh and Athena before I became wise to the fact that these guys add gunk to create yellow and orange &quot;sand patinas&quot; respectively.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at my purchases recently, I&#039;ve become a much better buyer. I&#039;m not buying crap anymore and I have some pieces I&#039;m quite proud of.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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