Assessment of coins

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It could have been a lot worse than 60 pounds. I met a guy at the local coin shop who showed me a gold aureus of Tiberius that he purchased in Israel on a Calvary Chapel Tour. He paid 2500 USD and it was absolutely fake. I felt horrible breaking the news to him.

 

That's the baked liver of sulfur used to give them an "antique look." Pretty smelly stuff after being in the oven for a bit.

 

One's I was in Germe, in cappodocia, also went into a shop with a friend, the shop owner showed coins, then later he took a gold coin out of a safe, but he had the wrong guy in front of him, I said this one and that one from the 50 coins.
And a gem with a god.
They guy was not pleased...I still need to laugh about it.

ooooooooooooo loads of Roman & Greek cities in Turkey !! as all coins collectors know.

 

I visited the Grand bazaar in Istanbul some years ago and saw many antiquities I would liked to have purchased for my teaching. But I had also seen Midnight Express. I found out, though from a dealer at the bazaar that a person could export an antiquity for cultural purposes and my being a history teacher qualified me for a certificate of export. I picked out an item and he filled in the printed blanks the appropriate information. I showed the artifact and the certificate at the airport and it was no problem. The swiss penknife in my back pocket turned out to be a different matter but that's a different story.

 

For enquiring minds, from Wikipedia:
Liver of Sulfur is a poorly defined mixture of potassium sulfide, potassium polysulfide, potassium thiosulfate, and probably potassium bisulfide. Synonyms include hepar sulfuris, sulfur, sulfurated potash and sulfurated potassa.
Liver of sulfur is mainly used in metalworking to form a patina, turning copper alloys brown or black.
Typically liver of sulfur comes in a dry rock form which must be broken into smaller pieces and dissolved in hot water for use.

 

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Hello everyone. I would like to ask your help identifying this Hadrian denarius coin which I got for birthday as a preset from a good friend. I do not know much about these coins. He told me he bought it online. I am suspicious it might be a forgery, I do not like the figure holding patera, and figure itself look more worn than the letters next to it. But I am not sure. Your help would be appreciated.
Denarius of Hadrian 117-138 AD Salus.
HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, bare headed bust right, draped far shoulder on the other side: SALVS AVG, Salus standing right, holding patera.
Weight 3,30 grams.

 

I don't see anything to make me think it's not authentic. The legends may have been tooled to make them stand out, but even that is questionable. I checked your image against the known fakes on line and couldn't find a match. BTW, the reference for your coin is RIC 267.

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