Recarved?

Is it just me or does this ancient coin look recarved?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Thrace-Pantikap...oryZ4738QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

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Yes, but AnemicOak will know for sure. It's his avatar...

Ben

 

Yes it does look recarved I can see tooling marks pretty clearly.... Nice catch!

 

recarved or just plain bogus.

 

Big time tooling there.


From what I looked at of his other stuff the silver looks ok (can't really tool silver without it being really apparent). Some of his other bronzes appear to be smoothed & possibly tooled.

 

It already has 9 bids too! Sucks for them.

 

If it was a nice clean original it'd be fairly valuable. Even a fairly poor example would be worth more than the bidding's at so far. As it is now it's completely worthless junk.

Unfortunately most coins from this area are hitting the market now with extensive tooling.

 

I'm still cruising the net for the perfect one at the right price. Hopefully someone will have one at a coin show I'm going to in 2 weeks.

 

Dmitry Markov gets some decent stuff in his VCoins store from time to time.

 

What is his stores name?

 

Here ya go...
http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/dmitrymarkov/store/dynamicIndex.asp


Don't know what he's got right now.

 

wow that thing is cut up

 

hamman, Pars Coins just listed a few...
http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/parscoins/store/dynamicIndex.asp

 

thanks ameminoak

 

No Problem

I couldn't remember your budget. Par's gets nice stuff, but he's on the high end price wise most of the time.

 

Imperial had the ones I liked at the right price, but know they are gone...

I would like to spend appox. $60

 

after looking at others online it looks nothing like a real one.

 

We never said it was fake, it's real. It had been altered to make detail.

 

It's so altered it the same as a fake in my book.