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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 2591750, member: 80783&quot;]I did not depatinate it myself, it is just that I love roman bronzes in their natural color. So I prefer my Sestertii in a yellowish or tan Orichalcum color and my asses in red. </p><p>Everybody else seems to prefer their bronzes with a dark coat but in hand I find them more impressive without. Also, believe it or not, they are much harder to find like this.</p><p>I would actually rather have it in a yellow but uncleaned &quot;Tiber Patina&quot; style myself, but for whatever reason that does not seem to exist for post-Caracalla Sestertii (they get more reddish after that and tend to be dark grayish from Decius onwards as the metal got worse and worse).</p><p>But then, it only cost me 35 Euros, so I don´t regret <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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