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Offline kommodore_ss

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roman coin
« on: July 07, 2014, 05:36:55 pm »
Hello
Could you help me identify this coin please?
16 mm diameter and 1.8 grams.
Thank you
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Re: roman coin
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2014, 09:02:25 pm »
Are those air bubbles on the obverse portrait?
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Re: roman coin
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2014, 05:32:24 am »
Looks like some rust of some kind.
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Re: roman coin
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2014, 07:20:20 am »
 
Quote from: Castvlo on July 07, 2014, 09:02:25 pm
Are those air bubbles on the obverse portrait?
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Just corrosion.

 
Quote from: kommodore_ss on July 07, 2014, 05:36:55 pm
Hello
Could you help me identify this coin please?
16 mm diameter and 1.8 grams.
Thank you
. I can't read the legends.  Many examples with votive reverse
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Re: roman coin
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2014, 12:56:50 pm »
Should there be a mintmark on reverse? and would i be able to identify it?
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Re: roman coin
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2014, 01:02:06 pm »

Mintmark is unreadable, but the emperor is Constantius II,
and type VOT XX MVLT XXX in wreath.

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Re: roman coin
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2014, 01:06:37 pm »
I hate it when i can't find the mintmark. Thank you for help
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Re: roman coin
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2014, 04:31:33 am »
The mint mark would come out with cleaning - though mechanical is your best bet not a soak.  I see what looks like a K or maybe an N.

The bubbles are in what looks like malachite (copper carbonate hydroxide) adhesion or corrosion.  This may be material deposited from another coin that lay in proximity to this one and might pop off with a scalpel.

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