Mysterious Red Deposit Perhaps of Alien Origin Spotted by FLO on Terrestrial Artefact...

Tetradrachm of Alexandria, struck during the 3rd year of the reign of Claudius II (AD 270-271). Found in gardening in 1945/1955. Recorded February 2005. Notable for:

"Evidence of reuse: Has had deposit of red substance on surface since removed from soil".

Send this woman on a course, please. The photo almost certainly shows Copper(I) oxide Cu₂O over a stripped metal surface. The mineral actually occurs as a mineral in Cornish lodes... it also occurs in soil corrosion products of copper alloy, as a basal layer. Photo shows possible traces of tooling behind the ear, and a 'juddered' tooling mark on the reverse below the bird's chin. This looks like a collector's loss. This find would benefit from being examined in the hand again and given a proper description. But of course, who knows where it even is now?It has however been seen by a "Secondary identifier (obfuscated for security): 0013EA168E001A86" who did not query the description, even though he's a deputy director of the American Numismatic Society. One of those "New School Numismatists" no doubt (he did not submit a comment on the Egypt MOU, despite having held one of these 'English-found' Egyptian tetras in his hands).