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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2009015, member: 42773&quot;]The toning is nice, yes, but it&#039;s all recent in my estimation. In 2200 years there&#039;s only one color silver will tarnish to, and that&#039;s black. The coin was cleaned at some point and picked up the attractive colors, probably in the last century. Likely it lived in an envelope made of sulfurous paper, or a wooden drawer, or some such other thing that has the potential to tone silver nicely.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, I like pretty toning as much as the next guy, but I don&#039;t place any premium on it whatsoever. I have a denarius of S. Severus that has some nice color which I didn&#039;t really capture in this image - it sparkles with iridescent golds and blues, but this is also a product of recent storage. The virtue of Zohar&#039;s drachm and my denarius is not in their color, but in their condition...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361547[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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