Coin Authentication

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by hoth2, Nov 18, 2015.

  1. stevex6

    stevex6 Random Mayhem

    => 100%

    => well, maybe not 100% (but I do have a guy that has a high-enough batting average to make me smile ear-to-ear when he says my targets look authentic)

    :)

    ... but yup, it definitely will be an opportunity for somebody to try and fill Sear's shoes, eh? (interesting)
     
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  3. dougsmit

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  4. Volodya

    Volodya Junior Member

    If you'd been buried for two thousand years, you might need a bath too.
     
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  5. dougsmit

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    It has been some time since we had a thread that brought this to light but I said here that if I were granted a Super Power it would be to see the entire life if each of our coins from being made - to being hoarded - to being found - to being cleaned - to being collected, sold and resold. Part of it would just be interesting while another part would disclose fakes, tooling and quite a number of things now mysterious. I wonder what the world record is for a coin being saved in a sock drawer in conditions it does not even require dusting. Is there a single ancient coin that has never been cleaned? I know there are some that were cleaned a couple hundred years ago but tat is 10% of its life. I can't remember how this came up before but a bath every couple thousand years seems within reason.
     
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  6. Carthago

    Carthago Does this look infected to you?

    I love this post, Doug. I picture a time lapse video of perhaps 2 minutes for 2000 years. So cool! :D
     
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