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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 7826441, member: 99456&quot;]It looks like a nice Tetradrachm to me,<b> <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/only-a-poor-old-man.111037/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/only-a-poor-old-man.111037/">@Only a Poor Old Man</a></b>.&nbsp; If it were my coin, I probably wouldn&#039;t risk the sodium thiosulfate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Based on a few experiments with lesser coins, it is not without risk.&nbsp; I would consider: <i>&quot;What is underneath the blackened areas?&quot;</i>.&nbsp; You may find a surface defect that you like less than the current shading.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a tetradrachm from Arados, which I couldn&#039;t resist for its portrait of Alexander and reverse figure of Zeus, both of which seem more human/mortal than usual.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1344823[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Macedonia, Arados Civic Issue</b>, 191/0 BC, issued in the name of Alexander III ‘the Great’, Tetradrachm (Silver, 29 mm, 17.11 g, 1 h), Arados, CY 69 = 191/0</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress</p><p><b>Rev:</b> AΛEΞANΔPOY Zeus seated left on low throne, holding long scepter in his left hand and eagle standing right with closed wings in his right; to left, palm tree; below throne, monogram of AP; in exergue, ΞΘ</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Price 3401[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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