holding_history https://www.ebay.com/sch/holding_history/m.html?item=382608244244&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 is this seller reliable and truthworthy?
Yes to both. He has been discussed here before and he is a CT member. https://www.cointalk.com/search/3881285/?q=holding_history&o=date (Reminder that CT's search function is very good.)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/382608244244?_trksid=p2046732.m570.l5997&_trkparms=gh1g=I382608244244.N34.S2.R1.TR3 Can you take a look at this. Does this look genuine? I don't know why but this just doesn't seem like it to me. I looks lke artificial tone and a cast fake. is it a mistake or did this reliable seller accidently let one slip by?( I know it happens to the best sellers - I am not accusing anyone of anything- I am not an expert at all) A seller friend of mine made a mistake once too ) I looked it up on wildwinds and it doesn't appear to match any of the ones know.. similar- but not close and I am having trouble finding Pegasus on the reverse with that obverse portrait maybe it isn't listed? or I looked in the wrong place?
He is OK, gotten several coins and fossils from here. He posts on occasion. And the coin you linked to looks ok.
I have dealt with him before. He is very reliable and I have never had any problems buying from him. His coins are genuine, he ships quickly, and is pleasant to deal with.
Wildwinds is a place where coin pictures and attributions are posted. The proprietor adds coins, many of which are submitted by collectors such as you and me. It is not a complete catalog (which is not to belittle or dismiss the awesomeness of Wildwinds!). Your best free place to look for other examples is ACsearch. You need a paid subscription to see the prices realized but you don't need that if you are just looking for other examples. It can take practice to understand the best search terms. This link is to an ACsearch I ran with search terms "titius denarius -liber -bacchus -baco". The minus sign will exclude those words from the results. The reason I used those exclusions is that denarii of Titius have two different obverses. One has a male head sometimes identified as Mutinus Titinus aka Priapos (this is like the coin you linked) and the other type has the head of Liber or Bacchus (Baco, in some Spanish listings). Narrowed down in this manner there are still more than 400 hits. Some are likely duplicates but there are still plenty of examples for you to study.
I have, but not on eBay. I bought from an online auction, I don't remember the platform. Might have been biddr.ch. I didn't have any problems with them.
Casts (unless tooled afterwards) tend to have edges of devices that flow into the fields, instead of ending at a well defined edge. This is why they are sometimes described as “mushy”. Take a look at the back of the head. The edges are well-defined without looking as though they were tooled.
