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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3790290, member: 19463&quot;]Judging ~2000 year old metal by color requires a lot of allowance for what happens when any copper alloy spends all that time exposed to a variety of &#039;experiences&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; The yellow ones we have today <i>could</i> be naturally toned but most have been cleaned sometime in the past 500 years and exposed to a second generation of different &#039;experiences&#039;.&nbsp; Roman shopkeepers would have had it easier.&nbsp; Below are a few of my yellow coins showing a variety of tones.</p><p><br /></p><p>Antonia dupondius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012464[/ATTACH] </p><p>Nero sestertius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012465[/ATTACH] </p><p>Vespasian dupondius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012466[/ATTACH] </p><p>Domitian dupondius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012467[/ATTACH] </p><p>Commodus sestertius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012468[/ATTACH] </p><p>Julia Domna sestertius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012469[/ATTACH] </p><p>Julia Maesa sestertius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012470[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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