Uncleaned Lot

Bottom right coin looks interesting. And eesh, the price has gone up! I try not to spend more than 50p per coin (with £1 extra allocated to each 'special' coin). This lot looks good though - some which will benefit a lot from the cleaning process. Id say to whack the culls in to a long term bath as soon as you get them - I've had some nice coins come out of my culls pile.

interesting lot ben, I saw those on ebay also. it does look like prices have gone up. I also was going to gets some just becuase I missed cleaning, but haven't been able to score any for a price I'm willing to pay.

I don't think there is much to clean off these, IMHO. But the identification process will be fun, and you may find an interesting "barbarous" (Unofficial) type.

Got them in today, I haven't taken any pics yet because I have them in dw right now. But I did go through them before and Masis you are right there isn't much to clean off of most but they are all pretty thick. From what I can see right now, I have in this lot 6 broken and in bad shape, 9 fallen horseman, 6 standards, 4 captives being dragged, and 3 Constantinople commemorative. I also found 2 severely scratched including the bottom right one, which was a let down because I was looking forward to that one, and the other was to see if it was silver. On the plus side, I have 3 decent byzantine follis (but I know very little about them and it's about time I learn), 2 Caracalla provenance, 1 septimius severus provenance, 1 faustina, and a bunch look promising. But the star of the lot so far is a crescent moon and star, it looks like a Caracalla from thrace but I have to look into it more. All in all I'm happy with this lot.

Took them out of the distilled water today and this is how a few look.