Antoninus Pius sestertius to BOT

[Charles S]

Yesterday I received by mail from Spain, an IMO absolutely stunning Antoninus Pius sestertius, RIC 891 (27,0g, Ø 30mm, 6h) date AD 151-152.  I did already add it to my gallery but it remains mostly unnoticed until now.  I find the obverse in such a wonderful condition and with such a beautiful portrait, that I intend to upload it to BOT, even if the reverse is perhaps not up to standard, because of the double strike.   I would be interested in your opinions.
Kind regards,
 

[Charles S]

Curtis Clay kindly suggested it would be good to remove some of the deposits obscuring some details.  I do not do this very often at all but it proved less difficult than I feared.  I managed to remove most deposits without scratching the under-laying patina (the few visible cleaning marks were already there).  Please see the results in the photo below. 

I'm replacing the original BOT record by this one: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-121902.  The old record will be deleted, thereby unfortunatly losing the comments and ratings, so far from Quadrans (I'm really sorry).

[Carausius]

That's a great improvement Charles. Well done.

[Charles S]

That's a great improvement Charles. Well done.

Thank you Carausius.

[Diederik]

This is a geat coin, worthy of any big collection; well done Charles!


Frans

[Charles S]

This is a geat coin, worthy of any big collection; well done Charles!


Frans

Thank you Frans, it is a great compliment especially when coming from a specialist collector like you.