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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3294320, member: 19463&quot;]I can&#039;t recall a Valerian I am sure was silver washed as opposed to just surface enriched but there are Gallienus sole reign coins I believe are washed. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]871648[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]871649[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]871651[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I would never say that the smaller of the Valerians in question has good/better silver&nbsp; under its current surface.&nbsp; Cleaning the coin would probably wreck it.&nbsp; All I said was that&nbsp; two coins that looked alike at the mint could leach out metals differently and tone differently according to what happened to them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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