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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 6410796, member: 26430"]Great writeup! Whatever Henzen is doing to re-tone coins (if anything), yours looks fine and doesn't look troubling to me. It's nothing like Athena. There is a spectrum of ways this can happen, of course. I recently noticed a bunch of my silver coins in the same envelopes and box had unintentionally toned quite noticeably over a few months, and have had others do so over years in different cabinets. I don't prefer anyone to do it, and I wouldn't do the "crushed egg" method, but if it's not excessive or grotesque, and they're not doing it destructively, I don't worry about it too much. Here's my favorite Desultor type Republican denarius (though it's a favorite for Hercules -- and especially the rat!). I had two, I think this might be the one I sold, though:[ATTACH=full]1253886[/ATTACH] And here's my CENSORI -- the horse is free. I like to imagine he (I think?) bucked the desultor off and went running off the field and into the distance (and perhaps some kindly person will take off the bridle once he's reached safety):[ATTACH=full]1253892[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]