Subject: Re: [Moneta-L] Help with a Trajan
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 20:29:55 -0500
From: "D. G. Liebl" <tribal-arts@mindspring.com>
Organization: Tribal Arts and Antiquities
To: "Dave Surber" <dave.surber@wildwinds.com>

Hello Dave, the green is hard and glassy.  Is that a good thing?  You are
absolutely correct about the inscriptions on obverse and reverse.

Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Surber <dave.surber@wildwinds.com>
To: D. G. Liebl <tribal-arts@mindspring.com>
Cc: <moneta-l@onelist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Moneta-L] Help with a Trajan

> Dave,
>
>   I think it may be a BMC 825, a sestertius with:
>
>   Obv:  IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P   / Bust
laur. r. with drapery on l. shoulder
>
>    Rev: S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI/S C      /   Trajan stg. l. holding
thunderbolt in r. crowned by Victory stg. l. holding palm in l.
>
>    As for the green stuff, is it hard and glassy, or soft and powdery?
>
>     Best Regards,
>
>         - Dave Surber
>
> "D. G. Liebl" wrote:
>
> > From: "D. G. Liebl" <tribal-arts@mindspring.com>
> >
> > I recently purchased the following coin.  Assistance please with
attribution
> > and any comments about the green material, and if it is the destructive
> > "bronze disease", and if so what should be done to eliminate it.  The
coin
> > is 18.5 grams in weight and 32 mm.
> >
> > www.tribal-arts.com/coin1.htm
> >
> > Thanks for the help
> > Dave
> >
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