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<p>[QUOTE="Josh Smith, post: 2414609, member: 78489"]Hello Eyestrain, if you're still out there... I think I ran into the same woman just last week (April 2016). She had the first souvenir tent upon leaving the site of Pompeii. As i approached her table, looking at the oxidized, ancient looking coins that I immediately assumed were fakes, she put a religious card in my hand. My wife wanted to bolt immediately, but I saw an oxidized coin with a pisces-like symbol on it (my sign) so i started to haggle. She had red, teary eyes and looked well into her 80's, if not older. She wanted $20 for the coin and insisted it was "real". I assumed otherwise, but the coins had been put through a process of oxidation and had a rough, heavy, ancient quality that made them interesting to me - like quality reproductions that justified a little extra $. The old woman basically insisted I purchase it, while my wife protested with equal zeal. I wound up getting two for $20. It became a running joke for the remainder of our trip - how I was lured into throwing away $20 on junk. I was wondering what the process is in the case of the oxidized coins? They seem like real copper or bronze or whatever, and I guess, are cast from a mold of an old coin, since the engravings are all worn, off center, etc. Do you know how these things are created? It seems like quite a bit of work was put into it....thanks, if you're still out there.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Josh Smith, post: 2414609, member: 78489"]Hello Eyestrain, if you're still out there... I think I ran into the same woman just last week (April 2016). She had the first souvenir tent upon leaving the site of Pompeii. As i approached her table, looking at the oxidized, ancient looking coins that I immediately assumed were fakes, she put a religious card in my hand. My wife wanted to bolt immediately, but I saw an oxidized coin with a pisces-like symbol on it (my sign) so i started to haggle. She had red, teary eyes and looked well into her 80's, if not older. She wanted $20 for the coin and insisted it was "real". I assumed otherwise, but the coins had been put through a process of oxidation and had a rough, heavy, ancient quality that made them interesting to me - like quality reproductions that justified a little extra $. The old woman basically insisted I purchase it, while my wife protested with equal zeal. I wound up getting two for $20. It became a running joke for the remainder of our trip - how I was lured into throwing away $20 on junk. I was wondering what the process is in the case of the oxidized coins? They seem like real copper or bronze or whatever, and I guess, are cast from a mold of an old coin, since the engravings are all worn, off center, etc. Do you know how these things are created? It seems like quite a bit of work was put into it....thanks, if you're still out there.....[/QUOTE]
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