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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SeptimusT, post: 2970782, member: 91240&quot;]A while back I was given a handful of uncleaned coins by a professor. For the most part they were barely identifiable slugs, although I was able to clean a couple into decent coinages (tiny Arcadiuses). This was also in the lot (very bad photo, but the only angle you can see any detail from): </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]728793[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a Nicaea provincial, and seems to not actually be uncleaned. From what I can tell, someone must have tried to clean it in the past, possibly chemically. The patina is uneven, dark, and unnaturally dull, more than anything I have ever seen. This makes the details very hard to see except at the right angle. Despite this, they seem to still have good relief and detail beneath it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Normally I would never want to alter a patina, but I think it may already be too late for this one. Does anyone have any suggestions for salvaging it? Perhaps it might be possible to remove some of the patina from the features, to create a coin with contrast like this Nero I have, but I have no idea how I would go about doing that:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]728794[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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