🎁 SURPRISE! Tonight’s Coin Finds — Before & After Cleaning 🪙

[MR.MHMD(MOHAMMAD)]

The Best Hunter
Coins from the era of the Elymaeans — first shown as they appeared before cleaning, followed by the details revealed after careful cleaning.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Those are some great looking coins !

 

[Almy]

That's quite a handful of ancient coins. Some things I would enjoy knowing: are they a hoard (found together), did you dig them up, what were the Elemaean people and how old are the coins?

 

[Mackaydon]

Fantastic saves !!
Main coin is a drachm. Kamnaskires VI, Elymais (Parthian Empire 247BC-224 AD) Composed of billon, about 4.1 grams and probably ELAM mint (now Shusha, Iran).
If the coin has a diameter of 28mm it's a tetradrachm and weighs about 15 grams.
Don in So Cal.

 

[Coinstar magnet]

The Best Hunter
Coins from the era of the Elymaeans — first shown as they appeared before cleaning, followed by the details revealed after careful cleaning.

Incredible! Nice job cleaning those!

 

[Coinstar magnet]

That's quite a handful of ancient coins. Some things I would enjoy knowing: are they a hoard (found together), did you dig them up, what were the Elemaean people and how old are the coins?

Good questions!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Welcome to the forum and congrats on the fantastic finds !

 

[oldmxrat]

Welcome to the forum and congrats on that hoard of coins!

 

[AU Seeker]

Can you share how you cleaned the coins?

 

[djackson7348]

Welcome and thanks for sharing. It is good you found them and not me since in their original state, I would have thought they were old fishing sinkers...

 

[MR.MHMD(MOHAMMAD)]

Thank you! 😄 I completely understand what you mean. Before cleaning, they really did look more like old fishing sinkers than ancient coins!
That is one of the fascinating parts of these finds — sometimes the history is hidden beneath centuries of dirt and oxidation. I’m glad I had the chance to recover and clean them, and I’m happy to share the results with the TreasureNet community.
Thanks again for the warm welcome!

 

[AU Seeker]

Thank you! 😄 I completely understand what you mean. Before cleaning, they really did look more like old fishing sinkers than ancient coins!
That is one of the fascinating parts of these finds — sometimes the history is hidden beneath centuries of dirt and oxidation. I’m glad I had the chance to recover and clean them, and I’m happy to share the results with the TreasureNet community.
Thanks again for the warm welcome!

Can you share how you cleaned the coins?