[Jewelry making - Article 00313] - [Orchid] Roman Coins

[Gary Bourbonais]

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    Anybody ever cleaned any Roman Coins...? 

    Most are bronze...don't know what else to call the alloy... Some are
    silver....some gold...some electrum... 

    Some coins were devalued.... Say from silver to silver washed
    bronze... 

    I'm sure they dinked with the gold coins too... 

    I've started to study these things.... 

    Roman History makes "Desperate Houswives" anemic...<G>... 

    Any advice...?
    Ideas...?

    Pendant stuff, at least, with all of them Goddesses on the
    reverse... 

    Oh yeah....despite his evil sounding name, Caligula...was the "the
    little boot"... 

    And he was less than a decade to become infamous... 

Gary W. Bourbonais
A.J.P. (GIA)

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