Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Theodosius, post: 2562128, member: 77077&quot;]I came across this Severus Alexander coin in a lot of cleaners.&nbsp; After removing the outer layer of dirt, I thought it was a denarius (exciting!) that was heavily encrusted in copper based corrosion.&nbsp; There was a hint of silver buried within a mass of red encrustation. After removing some of the corrosion using picks and weak acid I started to wonder if it was a fouree and perhaps that was the source of the copper corrosion deposits. Maybe a stash of fourees were buried together and corroded all over each other?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]552443[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In several places you can see the copper core showing through, verifying that it is a fouree. It took quite an effort to free this much of the coin from the corrosion. There is more corrosion on top of the silver but I am afraid to remove it for fear of damaging the rest of the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>The silver looks shinier and the copper looks as red as a new penny in hand. Hard to capture in a picture but it looks really cool this way. The portrait style is a little cartoonish looking maybe because the dies are unofficial copies?</p><p><br /></p><p>This fouree appears to be a copy of this common denarius, although the reverse legend is not quite the same (TRP VI - III not X - I):</p><p><br /></p><p>Severus Alexander AR Denarius. Rome, AD 230. IMP SEV ALEXAND AVG, laureate head right, slight drapery on left shoulder / P M TR P X-I - COS III P P, Sol standing right, head left, raising right hand and holding globe. RIC 112, RSC 427.</p><p><br /></p><p>See:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3051603" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3051603" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3051603</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Finding coins that are out of the ordinary is what makes the tedium and effort of cleaning worth doing. Post your cleaning stories and results.</p><p><br /></p><p>John[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in