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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8157503, member: 128351&quot;]I like very much the desert patina. Unfortunately there are some unscrupulous dealers who paint black coins with some orange product - at least the collector can tell the provenance as if the patina was signed like a Syracusan die. </p><p>But this is not a good reason to discard the real desert patina. It enhances the beauty of some coins, or makes details more visible.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1423545[/ATTACH] </p><p>Carthage, AE 15 mm, c. 400-350 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1423546[/ATTACH]&nbsp; </p><p>Carthage, AE 18 mm, c. 300-264 BC. In this case the sandy patina enhances the details of a very worn coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>And what about this one?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1423547[/ATTACH] </p><p>Elagabalus, Laodicea ad Mare (Lattaqiyyeh, Syria). One of the nicest portraits of Elagabalus I have seen on a provincial coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is also this one :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1423553[/ATTACH] </p><p>Byzantine, Justin II, pentanummium from Antioch mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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