It's in about the same condition as the one in the picture. I need to find a better way to store it thought. It's just sitting in a cup of Ballistol with a few uncleaned coins right now.
Cleaning ancient coins is a learning experience, luckily there are still lots of common coins out there to experiment on. I'm sorry to say that you went a little too far on cleaning this one. Your goal should be to removed as much of the dirt as possible without removing any of the patina or altering it's appearance.
Ya I discovered that late in the game so I just went with it. The other ones I'm being nicer to. This one I pretty much put it in a chemical bath that would strip the enamel off your teeth. I used all my gun cleaning/restoring equipment to clean the coins because thats what I had on hand. Lessen learned. I'm still happy with the coin.
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