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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4467863, member: 85693&quot;]I&#039;m with RC on this one - it looks tooled or otherwise molested. </p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, how do you smooth something and not damage the patina?&nbsp; Which is to say the flashy lime-green patina looks a lot like the Bulgarian spray-on-tan coin auctions on eBay. </p><p><br /></p><p>But my experience with high-end bronzes is nil, so this is the opposite of an expert opinion. </p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of &quot;hair detail,&quot; here&#039;s some awesome sestertius tooling/smoothing from eBay a while back - I was going to bid on it if it stayed in the ten dollar range, but it kept going up, up, up.&nbsp; Strand of pearls or spotted cobra?&nbsp; I thought of it more as &quot;folk art&quot; like a hobo nickel rather than an ancient.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1112292[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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