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Hey, please keep your language family-friendly.

Also, if you bought 280 silver coins for 80 euros there's a great chance that one of two things happened:

1. A vast majority of the coins are fake (except for Mexico and France)
2. Whoever sold it to you is a certified idiot who sold a large collection for a small fraction of melt value.

I'll go with option 1, as anybody who had the know-how to put together a good collection like that would also have at least an inkling of melt values and would have had the common sense to bring it to a dealer or pawn shop instead of selling several-hundred-dollars of melt silver for less than $100.

 

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Rafal, welcome to the forum, but please read the rules in the 2nd forum in the list under FORUMS. Jim

 

To be honest, The Hadrian is not authentic without doubt but most of the coins in the folder are not rare (I think unless they are rare dates) there is a good chance most are authentic. I can't see them very well, some Mexican, a Polish coin, French, Cuban etc...each one would need to be examined closely.

There is no need to go off...it's good to approach these things with caution. I doubt most could proclaim fakes without a better look...at least my eyes can't see them well enough to do so from these pics...however the picture of the Hadrian is very clear and easily spotted as fake, you can trust me on that.

 

Ok I will. Thanks

 

Please refrain from foul language here. We understand you’re not a native speaker, but still, please keep cussing to a minimum here.

To be honest, it’s tough for people to take you seriously in an academic environment when one uses foul language

 

Hi. Brand new here. I have a handful of coins, I can somewhat read. I find it very difficult to identify, I’ve spent hours using the ancient coin identifier, with the letters I can make out. Perhaps some one can help with one of these.

 

Looks like a late empire Constantinian bronze with reverse of GLORIA EXERCITVS , which would translate into "The glory of the army". I am not that familiar with coins of this period, but I would think one would need a photo of the obverse to identify the specific emperor. I believe it was minted in Constantinople.

 

That’s incredible. I can’t believe how quick you knew that. I need to work on good photo of the obverse.

 

You’d be surprised with how many of the Ancient folk are literal experts!

 

I've been posting in this forum for almost exactly two months, and I never cease to be amazed at the immense amount of knowledge -- individual and collective -- displayed by the members here. As well as their willingness to help.

 

To narrow down your coin, try this method.

1. Go to https://tesorillo.com/aes/home.htm
2. Click "Types of Reverses"
3. Find your reverse
4. Scroll down to find all of the rulers who had that reverse, and try to find one that looks reasonably similar.

NOW
5. Go to Wildwinds.com
6. Navigate to "Imperial Coinage by Ruler"
7. Find your ruler
8. Ctrl+F "GLORIA" and scroll through the results until you find the right one

If you didn't, go back to Tesorillo and find another ruler, go back to Wildwinds, rinse and repeat.

 

Any ideas on what I have here? Tough time identifying once again.

 

Definitely Claudius II Gothicus. Those sunken cheeks are pretty distinctive

 

I’m simply amazed. Yet again. Thank you

 

Unfortunately I’m not sure what the reverse is. Sort of looks like “COMSEC,” you could go to the wildwinds page for Claudius II and CTRL-F “comsec” and see if you get anything

 

CONSECRATIO. It's a commemorative coin minted after his death by his brother, Quintillus.

 

Yes. Posthumous antoninianus. 266AD. I blows my mind to have something intact, from almost 2000 years ago. Thanks for nailing that one too!

 

Spent two hours on this one, doing the search. I can’t piece together enough letters to figure it out. Maybe I have the wrong magnification? I use a 10x. And 40x.

 

I just saw the site tesorillo that hot wheels posted. I’m checking that out now. I was going the wrong direction in my search

 

Looks like DNVALEN SPFAVG

So, emperor Valens with Victory Left reverse.
—SIS mintmark.

Should get you started