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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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 After much wrestling with myself I finally bought this coin, I had seen it on ebay and had concerns about the encrustation on the reverse. After extensive looking I could simply not find another as well centred and with good details for anything near the price and the seller agreed to let me pick the coin up and pay cash (allowing me a discount) since he is local to me. I briefly gave it a wipe with a lintless cloth dipped in acetone and the cloth discoloured slightly so its posible that an acetone bath could move this but in hand it isn't as bad as it looks in the photo. For the time being I put it in a 2 x 2 and maybe I will return and give it some attention at a later stage. It cost me £50 which I think is money well spent if it can be restored to its former glory.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's a pretty nice coin there but don't be too aggressive in cleaning the coin. Not at bad coin for around $75 USD.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5155 Posts |
I cant upload any photos to this post...
I am getting a VBScript compile error...unexpected run finish?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2044 Posts |
Report the error. I have reported a few of them and they were fixed rather fast.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5155 Posts |
20 minutes in an acetone bath with some light q tipping and BAM! new coin!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Great coin, I love the detail in the reverse. Hope you can get that junk off of it.
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Forum Dad
 United States
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I cant upload any photos to this post...
I am getting a VBScript compile error...unexpected run finish?  Should be OK now. I was working on fixing the iPhone uploads... |
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Pillar of the Community
 United Kingdom
2624 Posts |
I am curious as to what picture you were going to post for me ^^ but good to see you are so optomistic that it can be cleaned up.
Whatever it is on the coin it is very hard and gritty, and I dont want to be agressive with it...
I need to buy some more acetone so that I have enough to actually submerge the coin for some time to see if the acetone can penetrate and loosen it.
I am only half convinced it will dissapear because if it was easy then the person who originally cleaned the coin would have removed it.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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That's a nice one--the obverse looks better than mine from the same Taxilla mint. I hope the crud comes off. Incidentally, mine came from the UK--it was just under £50.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Great looking coins kudos to both of you  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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- DV You and Doug inspired me to get mine a $100 for this one different mint though. Pushkalvali (sp) I will post when I come home.  Edited by Ancientnoob
01/05/2013 8:13 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Is it me or does the OP coin have a legend error a backwards second "N" in Menander. Hum... Who bungled that one?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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AncientNoob--another nice coin! Interesting to see the different styles of Athena by mint. Good eye on the legend--interesting and understandable error, particularly if the engraver may have not known Greek.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i like it, even with the "stuff". |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Haha thanks for pointing that out ^^ and well spotted, I didn't notice that error.
Thanks for all your input :)
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