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Well.. It's Byzantine.. No idea other than that
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I can't say with 100% certainty but I believe your coin is a Follis of Constantine X. (1059-1067) The obverse is Christ standing wearing nimbus and holding book of gospels The reverse is Eudocia standing on the left and Constantine on the right. it is Sear #1853. Based on it's condition it's only worth a few dollars.
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11/12/2012 9:20 pm
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Aside from it looking Byzantine, I don't know anything else about. But what I do see is what looks like bronze disease in the second photo. Left untreated it will, over time, eat through the coin. If you are hoping to sell it, this will hurt its chances of being sold. Is the green stuff flakey and does it come off when gently scraped?
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 it looks like bd, give it an scrape with a toothpick or even you fingernail. if it come off easilty, it probably is. get it off, stick it in some distilled water for a week or so, scrape again, bake it in oven for 15 minutes at 190. sounds wierd, I know....but I'm baking a scythian coin as we speak that I just gave the above treatment to. may not be worth much, but it's cool and worth saving from bd. Edited by chrsmat71
11/12/2012 9:58 pm
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I soaked a Victorinus in distilled water for two months to get rid of some bronze disease. Also, picking at the spots with a toothpick and sometimes scrubbing in that area with a toothbrush may help. I didn't need to bake the coin, thankfully.
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I had a bad experience once with soaking a BD coin in distilled water, so I'll only save that method as a last resort (although thankfully my coin was eventually cured). But that's just me and may depend on how widespread the BD is.
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I had a bad experience once with soaking a BD coin in distilled water what happend vk? |
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Thanks guys!
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what happend vk? When it arrived, I found out my Jovian had spots of BD, so I decided to soak it in distilled to cure it. This is how it looked when I first got it:  After a couple hours, it started to turn orange:  Later, this happened:  After a couple weeks of soaking, I realized that distilled water was going to do no good, so I baked it in the oven a few times and this was the end result:  (Has a clay color look to it but that's fine since the BD went away. Many months later in a well-sealed up 2x2 cardboard flip and the BD hasn't returned) Edited by VisigothKing
11/12/2012 11:15 pm
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wow, what in the world happened there? we need AN's chemist skills here I think...some sort of wierd something or other with the plastic in the container? beats the heck out of me. glad the bd went away at least!
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Rather then fumble my way through a detailed explanation...I would rather you read this...print out the PDF and really know it...give a man a fish and he eats for day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.... http://nautarch.tamu.edu/CRL/conser...l/File12.htm |
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