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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;VexedOldHag, post: 9784253, member: 86630&quot;]Many were intaglios but also ancient bronze amulets I have found of same, so I wonder if this is more of the latter category rather than taken from an intaglio. I meant not a modern repro of an ancient piece, one can find those in abundance online.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, soft-ish comparatively and absolutely you make sense thinking that its softer nature lends to faster wear for sure. I was going at it pretty aggressively with a screwdriver (it was so black I couldn&#039;t tell what it was at all), like a dummy.</p><p>However, the wear seems of the sort that takes ages to happen, hard to put into concrete terms, a coin collector would understand (not that I am that lol) what I mean I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edges have that...gradual smoothing to them, and the central figure and the snake have almost all details smoothed away. The edges don&#039;t seem filed, no. The letters in relief round the edges, the wear is apparent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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