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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 2747010, member: 76086&quot;]Hmmm.&nbsp; Silver or bronze? For silver likely the patina will not be original (most will clean them to bright silver, so the original patina will be long gone.&nbsp; 99.9+% of all silver coins will not have original patina).&nbsp; For base metals it will be a crap shoot.&nbsp; One can never know what the original patina may have been as 99.9+% have also been cleaned.&nbsp; Most often we never know what the original state or appearance might have been because of that cleaning.&nbsp; True, often patina colors are the result of chemicals.&nbsp; One never truly knows.&nbsp; I have this Constantine (thought it was a Crispus, but that is what time does), I bought it in the mid 1980&#039;s for about $8.&nbsp; Looks really black in hand.&nbsp; I mounted it in a gold bezel but never wore it.&nbsp; Still sits in a jewelry box, ignored all these years.&nbsp; I have sad feelings I never gave it any attention....</p><p>[ATTACH=full]628259[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]628260[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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