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Valued Member
 United States
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After 15 minutes nothing. Here is the directions sent.  |
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Valued Member
United States
90 Posts |
After 15-30 minutes.... Can some be Identified yet?  |
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Valued Member
United States
90 Posts |
Are these bronze or copper?
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Top middle has silver plate left (its Constantine I or II, ill let you try and get the rest). Dont dip that one back in. In fact, id recommend against putting any of them back in. Wash them in Bicarb of Soda and then use either distilled water or Olive oil.
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Valued Member
United States
90 Posts |
OK Done with mint state, going to let these sit in distilled water for a while. Can they be ID'd?   |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
4208 Posts |
Top right can be IDed. If you need help with it, pipe up and we'll point you the right way. The others are getting overcleaned - soak them in olive oil for a while and brush them occasionally and perhaps you'll be able to ID them. The leptons are done - list them on ebay as widows mites, they're worth £3-5 as slicks. |
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Valued Member
United States
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The Leptons I did not do with Mint State, those were my first ever coins and I know I over cleaned them. But I made that mistake.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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The VOT win wreath, which I think is one of the Constantine family is like the blank disk I found. Weeks of soaking brought up this:   I haven't finished cleaning the obverse yet. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Pish - Nice, an SMHA. Get the back end of the hair cleaned off and ill be able to make some judgement of its celator. The ties at the rear of the head is also a bit die cutters did differently but these old large bust issues seemed to have little continuity with that bit towards the smaller busts used for Constantine. Make sure you post a picture of it when its finished!
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Valued Member
United States
90 Posts |
Constantine had 8 coins with the VOT Wreath, I am having a hard time at Wildwinds understanding the difference.
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Valued Member
United States
90 Posts |
I have narrowed it down to 3. Only 3 could be my coin.
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Valued Member
United States
90 Posts |
At wildwinds the left hand column has "Aquileia, RIC VII 85.2"
I think Aquileia is the mint, but what does the RIC VII 85.2 stand for?
Guess I should go back and read the instructions and I might find out
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
4208 Posts |
The differences will be legend breaks, mintmarks and officinas. You've also got bust types, obverse legends and minor varieties. wildwinds might list 8, but its probably closer to a couple of hundred.
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New Member
Italy
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the coins are looking like they have been cleaned with electric. try other methods as well. kiwi is very good and does not hurt the coin colour coating. acqua distillata is good way to clean in a safe way but is to preference as to how the keeper of the coin wants it to look for them. the ground detectors do care of coins, it is why they search for them but the do clean to harsh or not at all. heat can work on hoard coin to break hard soils - hot cold hot cold then soak the water and if can do move often.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Ben - it is going to be a while before I get full use of my hand back, cleaning is going to have to wait! RIC = Roman Imperial Coinage, the definitive guide. Comes in several volumes (VIII) is volume 8. Set of books is probably several hundreds of dollars. You can pick up DVDs on ebay very cheaply, but they are hard to read at first, and you can't search the PDF files. My set cost £10. Search ebay for RIC. Wildwinds is a good starting place to look for your coins, but if you can't find it there, check out acsearch.com and coinproject.com. Check out the stickies at the top of the forum for really good reference sites and guides. The way I cleaned my blank disk was to soak in DW for several weeks (it probably didn't need that long but I was ignoring it as it was so uninteresting). When it started to show detail, I used a scalpel blade to pick. You should use a toothpick at first till you get the hang of it. Apply slight pressure to the "mud". You have to do it, making sure that the blade/pick does not go straight through the mud and mark the coin below. The idea is to just fracture the mud and then I use an unused blusher brush to get rid of the fragments. As soon as you find that you can't fracture any more of the mud, chuck it back into the DW for another couple of days and try again. You will know when it is the time to move up from the toothpick to something more dangerous, but you will do less damage to the coin using a pick to begin with. Different deposits will need different techniques, and lots of patience. |
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