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    Cleaned coin

    From my last hunt .... i found 15 Roman coins,but only this one is nice,rest is very bad.I did some cleaning job for about 2 hours and here it is:
    Caesar 317 - 326
    Crispus was the oldest son of Constantine. He was made Caesar in about 316 and groomed along the military and political ways to be expected of a future emperor. However, his career was cut short in 326 when his stepmother Fausta accused him of attempted rape. Her story must have sounded like an unspeakable atrocity for Constantine had his son put to death at once. Some time later it was somehow found out that she'd made up the entire story and Constantine had her literally boiled to death. Fausta's motive most likely had to do with removing Crispus from the line of succession to make way for her own sons. This much she was successful at since they did indeed become emperors some ten years afterwards.

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    marcvs, nice coin all cleaned up now. great history lesson too. did you get your new coil yet?

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    That cleaned up nice Marcvs thumbsup01 very nice coin and history too!!

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    nice coins you get to find i would love to find just one of those coins lol
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    Nice coin Marcus,cleaned up real good,thanks for the history lesson,keep them coming,Dave
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    Man, I love what you can learn on this forum!!
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    Boiled to death. Man that's crazy

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    Crazy Italians !! I wonder if he served her up with a fine Chianti ? Nice job on the cleaning Marcus and thanks for a great story . thumbsup01 thumbsup01

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    Lobsterized I bet that hot water hurts Nice job on the restoration Marcus. If you ever want to share your secrets to cleaning bronze coins we would love to hear them. If it's a secret family recipe, we would understand lol I am, by the way, allergic to boiling water
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    great restoration on the ancient coin Marcus thumbsup01 really well done . its great to learn the history behind the relics and coins we find , Thanks
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    That one cleaned up real nice Marcvs,what a story behind the coin

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    Awesome find Marcus and so much history over there under Your feet !!
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