Latest look at dirt lumps

[shirohniichan]

Here are shots of the best dirt lumps I have. The year of soaking in olive oil only made them marginally cleaner.

 

Can anyone identify any of them?

 

[satootoko]

Can anyone identify any of them?

Could they be dark colored roundish pieces of metal

[shirohniichan]

Does Thing ever come around here any more? I need some help here.

[JamminJ]

Be thankful you only have a handfull of them.

[shirohniichan]

Be thankful you only have a handfull of them.

 

I think I have 31 others, but these are the only ones with clear designs left on them. I have 5 others that are so encrusted with sand and dirt that almost a year in olive oil and repeated attacks with toothpicks haven't been able to remove the grit. Others are so smooth that the dirt removal just left me with a small bronze disc.

[TJ]

Rock tumbler full of aquarium gravel...or electrolysis.

[the_Thing ®]

Tough one to call on those. Man, that lot of coins really sucked big TJs. The last coin, on the right, is Islamic, I'm guessing 1100 AD or so. I'm fairly certain the other 3 are roman, 100 BC - 200 AD, but I'm not sure.

[TJ]

Tough one to call on those. Man, that lot of coins really sucked big TJs. The last coin, on the right, is Islamic, I'm guessing 1100 AD or so. I'm fairly certain the other 3 are roman, 100 BC - 200 AD, but I'm not sure.

One of my cats coulda guessed that much.

[shirohniichan]

Tough one to call on those. Man, that lot of coins really sucked big TJs. The last coin, on the right, is Islamic, I'm guessing 1100 AD or so. I'm fairly certain the other 3 are roman, 100 BC - 200 AD, but I'm not sure.

 

The second from the left is supposed to be Greek. If I had a microscope or a camera with a really good macro function, I could probably get a shot of the -script on the reverse.

 

Did you notice the Islamic one has a fleur-de-lys on it? What's the French connection with this coin?