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<p>[QUOTE="tartanhill, post: 3607222, member: 93472"]This coin almost looks as though it had been sand blasted. Do you think that would be a method of cleaning coins?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B2%2F1%2F1%2F3%2F8%2F21138816%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B2%2F1%2F1%2F3%2F8%2F21138817%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AR tetradrachm (23mm, 16.37 gm, 1h). XF.</b> Late lifetime or early posthumous issue of Byblus, under Ptolemy I Soter, ca. 330-320 BC. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied before neck / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus seated left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, feet on stool, eagle in right hand, scepter in left; AP monogram in left field. Price 3426.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="tartanhill, post: 3607222, member: 93472"]This coin almost looks as though it had been sand blasted. Do you think that would be a method of cleaning coins? [IMG]https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B2%2F1%2F1%2F3%2F8%2F21138816%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D[/IMG] [IMG]https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B2%2F1%2F1%2F3%2F8%2F21138817%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D[/IMG] [B]MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AR tetradrachm (23mm, 16.37 gm, 1h). XF.[/B] Late lifetime or early posthumous issue of Byblus, under Ptolemy I Soter, ca. 330-320 BC. Head of Heracles right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied before neck / AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus seated left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, feet on stool, eagle in right hand, scepter in left; AP monogram in left field. Price 3426.[/QUOTE]
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