Unfortunately, the fallen enemy is sort of busted which is tough. Main horseman is highly stylized, and the flow lines actually give it a pretty nice appearance. The reverse is as good as you'd expect from a generic FTR. The portrait is striking, although some letters are cut off. Likewise, the most interesting part of the reverse is obliterated by pitting. The face of the bust is nice, but the pitting on the cheek and rest of head really kill this one. This one had tons of potential, but unfortunately it falls short of the mark. The ragged flan takes away from the overall experience. The horseman on the reverse is actually rather nice in hand, but again details are sort of hit-and-miss on this one. The letters on the obverse are nice and clear, but most of the details are rather mushy. Reverse is reasonable, and the patina is nice and even, with excellent color. The portrait seems to have been the victim of a deliberate damaging campaign, but I don't remember Valens being subjected to a Damnatio Memoriae. One might say that I was a bit too harsh in the mechanical cleaning, but there was simply no other way to get the detail that I did.Īt least this one is fully identifiable. I can't tell the ruler at all, and you can barely tell the reverse. This is the worst of the "successful" ones. Gloria Exercitus (single standard) reverse I wanted to examine only the successful cleans and ignore the slugs, as we all know that a few bad apples should not spoil the whole bushel. Every single one required a soak in Gringgott's #2, and many also required a harsh lye treatment. None of the coins I received were at all close to being presentable after just DW and mechanical cleaning. In that respect, I found that the advertising was incorrect. I found 9/30, or less than one-third to warrant that distinction. Finally, the description indicated that "nearly half" will clean up to VF or better condition. Additionally, the coins are advertised as the SAME as the "True Premium" uncleaned issues, which are described as, basically, being 10/10's with a bit of clay on them. As seen in the photo, each of these LRBC issues are simply covered with soft dirt that will respond best with DW soaks and mechanical cleaning with dental picks, common scalpels, and tooth brushing, etc." (emphasis mine) In the past, we have referred to these as ‘beginner coins’ or ‘excellent for honing your cleaning skills' or ‘practice coins.’ These are not. However, I want to make it very clear that I am not satisfied with how the coins matched the description. Since the dichotomy between the successes and failures were so dramatic, I will present each successful coin, in order of worst to best, and give a grade for each.Īt the end I'll tally it up and see what we get.Īs for the roaches, I'll chalk those up to "comes with the territory" and ignore them for the grade. However, that was before I finished cleaning everything, and I would like to revise my 5/10 into something somewhat better, with a different grading scale. In that review, I gave the uncleaned coins a 5/10 rating. You may remember from my previous post on NRC's "Deluxe Beginner's Set," where I gave the overall package a pretty low score of 6/10. HahaĪs promised, here is my review of NRC's "Premium Uncleaned" coins. No member from this site currently wants to exchange it.Grab a coffee I guess, and try to enjoy this review more than I enjoyed this whole nightmare of a process.
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