Featured Ancient ... but not a coin! Artifacts thread! Post 'em!

As I mentioned, there have been questions. Unfortunately (like so many others) their origin is murky. I bought mine when they first surfaced (I cant recall but maybe sometime in the 90's).

Mark Reid has been selling the estate of the late David Liebert (who coincidentally also operated under the business name of The Time Machine, as does Mark). Dave bought his many years ago. I never had a problem with them, but I did ask one dealer why he felt they were false, and his response was something like 'well, I looked at the hoard and I saw a few duplicates'. Thats exactly what you expect from a hoard, especially if they all come from the same site, presumably a repository of documents which had burned (and you can see evidence of burning on many examples).

Bottom line, I feel they are genuine until one can prove otherwise. Forgers never take the time to produce many hundreds of different types, especially for the low amount these originally sold for.

As for those sold by Roma, I am aware of them and saw them in the auction but never looked at the lots at all. I simply assumed they were leftovers from the original batch.

 

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that is a very nice seal ring.

 

welcome..and, what is this?

 

My daughter and I actually found some ancient artifacts this week while on vacation in Phoenix. A few pottery shards on the surface of a hill mixed in with the rocks. The place I'm staying has a nice little library of prehistoric American art and these appear to date c. 950-1150.

Me and Livy:

 

Neklace seal

 

Do you need more things

 

Oh, ok, thanks

 

kool finds man!

 

U welcom

 

Here's a very informative 5-minute video on gem carving. It's amazing to think of ancient persons doing this work without modern rotary tools.

 

Happy Greetings. . I might have here 3 ancient artifacts, stones handcrafted to form dice, a gem in the shape of a heart and a round colorful crafted stone or glassware to be placed on a ring. Hope they're ancient fun to us.

 

I have this cool neolithic stone arrowhead from Africa. (41 mm)

 

A super interesting website, thank you!

 

Here is a bronze spear point I also posted in the FUN thread. This is very substantial in hand, you could almost use it as a sword.



We also found this Byzantine lock cover. It is not obvious that this is a lock cover from looking at it, not sure how that would work. We bought it because it looked like a dog I had years ago.



Next to a denarius for scale.

John

 

You win. The Ango-Saxon piece, which LM has pointed out, is stunning. More than stunning. I am envious.

 

Speaking of ancient aliens, my wife is convinced from looking at certain Byzantine coins of mine that they are proof that aliens interbred with eastern Mediterranean peoples from the 6th century onward...