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Author Topic: BD on billon Ant? Suggestions welcomed  (Read 1770 times)

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Offline Ken W2

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BD on billon Ant? Suggestions welcomed
« on: June 16, 2020, 10:04:28 pm »
Hello all: Thought I had a decent find in an uncleaned bronze lot. This coin was caked with dirt and encrustations, showing no detail at all when I started. I believe it is a billon Ant of Ota Sev, 23 mm, 3.09g. Concordia rev. RIC 126. I don’t see many empress coins in uncleaned lots, certainly not Ants, or even many coins at all going back to 246-248 AD. Was pretty psyched until I encountered these rust looking spots. Is this BD, or some other infliction that will harm the metal going forward? Or is it just a by product of the corrosion process that is inert/harmless ? I can mechanically clean through it to good metal as shown in the pics. I’d welcome info about what this is and how to treat it.
Ken

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Re: BD on billon Ant? Suggestions welcomed
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2020, 07:41:00 am »
Probably NOT BD.
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Re: BD on billon Ant? Suggestions welcomed
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2020, 11:58:29 am »
Lovely find! Just keep a close eye on it in the future to make sure nothing develops.

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