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Offline casata137ec

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casata137ec's before and after rd 13
« on: April 17, 2011, 10:50:07 am »


Well here it is. I am not pleased with the results, as a matter of fact I ahve been done for a couple of months now and all of them with the exception of the alexandrian tet would have gone in the junk pile had it not been for the contest. I know that I cannot win, or even be judged, but still! I must say taht the Alexandrian tet was worth the price of admission though!  ;D

Chris



Alexandria mint, Diocletian tetradrachm, 284-305 (287/288) A.D. potin, 20mm 8.32g, BMC Alexandria 2522
O: AKΓOVAΔIOKΛHTI ANOCCEB, bust r., laur; wears cuirass
R: Nike running l., holds wreath and palm LΔ to l.

Unknown, possibly Alexandrian due to flan shape
20mm 9.29g

Con… 16mm 2.08g
O: illegible, draped, cuirassed, and laureate, emperor r.
R: FEL TEMP REPARATIO, horseman spearing fallen soldier
Ex: illegible

Unknown, possibly Judean due to flan shape
14mm 2.48g

Arcadius, 13mm 1.56g
O: DN ARCADIVS PF AVG, pearl diademed, draped, cuirassed bust r.
R: VOT X MVLT XX within wreath
Ex: illegible
(13 variant of this size on Helvetica’s sheets, Cyzicus, Antioch, and Alexandria mints)


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Re: casata137ec's before and after rd 13
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2011, 08:09:09 pm »
Excellent effort!  You definitely got a tough lot, and obviously toiled to get them to this point. Very impressive...
  I agree, the Diocletian is worth the entry. 

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Re: casata137ec's before and after rd 13
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2011, 02:55:25 am »
Darn you!  You made me want to order a Tetrarchy Tet.  You did a very nice job.  Can you elucidate a little on what you did to clean the nicer Tet?

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Re: casata137ec's before and after rd 13
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2011, 10:04:50 pm »
Thanks guys. I appreciate the comments. I wish I could have done better though! lol (I am very good at self criticism!)

@cliff - Let's see...it has been a while since I cleaned it, but if I remember correctly I simply soaked in distilled water, knocked down the high parts of the corrosion with a coarse diamond dusted dental pick, got it almost to the flan with some super fine diamond dusted dental drill bits (*note if you use these fine bits, keep water handy as they get clogged smooth fairly rapidly and have to be cleaned often)in a pin vice (one of my clients is a dentist and he hooked me up with a handful of these in various shapes, sizes, and grittiness), shaved off the red boil that was around Nike's head with my trusty angle bladed exacto, and cleaned the rest of the corrosion with my round bladed exacto. It took about a week to clean, if I am remembering properly.
Yes, this one turned out all right...pretty good actually (I like the Nike), but to be completely honest with you, these are pretty easy to clean. My theory is that with the hodge-podge of metals in these "potin" tets, the blue junk on top is simply the powdery residue of the copper leeching out from the coin (on top of the flan, like it is sweating out, not actually "in" the flan). The red boils can be much tougher, but the blue junk on these guys is no big deal. On the other hand, I have spent the last few years cleaning coins on a regular basis, so it may just be easy because I know what I am looking at/for! lol

Chris
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