Valens a long-time coming clean

I worked on this for a long time. Perhaps I got a little too close to base metal. But it doesn't look too bad for one I thought about putting in the cull bin.

Valens, AE3, Siscia. AD 364-367.
DN VALEN-S PF AVG, pearl diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right.
GLORIA RO-MANORVM, emperor walking right, holding labarum
and dragging a captive behind him.
Star over A in right field.
Mintmark DBSISC.
RIC IX Siscia 5b, type vii (a); Sear 19745.
Rated common.

 

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Not much better:

 

They look fine. I am into cleaning, identification and collecting. I let others handle the museum pieces. And there are some nice ones on the forum.

 

@Inspector43.....Nice work!.....I really enjoy your perspective of bringing back to life a coin and have seen how you correlate the result with a neat spreadsheet including the same type coin vs your reincarnation....Enjoy!
I have this same type but from a different mint...
Valens. 364-378 AD. AE Nummus (2.19 gm, 18mm). Thessalonica mint. Struck 364-367 AD.
Obv.: D N VALENS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right.
Rev.: GLORIA ROMANORVM, Emperor walking to right, head to left, holding labarum and dragging captive; TESΓ in exergue......RIC IX #16b.

 

Thanks @Spaniard I do that with all my ancients. I have over 100 cataloged.

 

Very nice specimen. Thanks for posting it.