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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7751881, member: 19463&quot;]Exactly!&nbsp; I see nothing here that suggests a cast was made from the coin.&nbsp; We see a smear from a toothpick that suggests a bit of waxing/paste cleaner.&nbsp; I go back to the theory that someone thought that, if a gram of wax would improve the coin, a ton would make it wonderful.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since this thread was started, I found my long lost box of casts in the attic including trades with Roger Bickford-Smith and the coins I made like plaster casts but in epoxy resin that are indestructible.&nbsp; I wish I could find proper clay to make more but I have a lot to do sorting through all I found. I have a several boxes of the things. Years ago I attended what the Smithsonian billed as a travelling exhibit of ancient coins from a German museum.&nbsp; What they failed to mention was that there was not a single real coin in the exhibit.&nbsp; All were plaster casts that had been painted rather skillfully to look like coins.&nbsp; I have been known to paint plaster silver too make it easier to photograph but the coins in this exhibit had painted patinas and mottled toning.&nbsp; I felt cheated.&nbsp; It was made worse since the travelling exhibit was organized by a frat brother of my brother-in-law.&nbsp; Painted plaster can be pretty but they are not &#039;coins&#039;.&nbsp; You can still get the book but it is not worth having.&nbsp; The only coin in the exhibit of Septimius Severus was misidentified. </p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rome-Germans-seen-coinage-exhibition/dp/0961928107" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Rome-Germans-seen-coinage-exhibition/dp/0961928107" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Rome-Germans-seen-coinage-exhibition/dp/0961928107</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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