9:16pm Hi , edited Most of my coins are ex Roma, Nomos, CNG, Bertolami Fine Arts etc, however a few have been purchased from a private source. The coins I'm concerned about are the following as per pictures below Edit: due to technical difficulties, his images were uploaded in Post #6. ~Mod concerns are porosity (bubbling from casting) and the thickness of some of the alexander tets and style with some of the coins . Thank you in advance. Danny
@Danny13a- it's not you, this time. It's us, I'm afraid. The drag-and-drop (or copy-paste) function of these forums has unfortunately broken recently, and your images will only show if you upload them as attachments. If you copied and pasted them in, you will be able to see them in preview mode, or when you're posting them, but they will not display properly. They're on the server but will display as broken images. You'll need to upload them as attachments. Click the "Upload a File" button. After you have uploaded the attachments, then click the "Insert every image as a... Full Image" option. You should be good to go, then.
Hi , edited Most of my coins are ex Roma, Nomos, CNG, Bertolami Fine Arts etc, however a few have been purchased from a private source. The coins I'm concerned about are the following as per pictures as per attached. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Edited: I took the liberty of numbering your images, to help them to help you. ~Mod.
There you go. But you didn't select the Full Size option, so they're all showing as thumbnails. I'll fix it for ya... Update: fixed to show full sized images now. Numbered the coins, to make it more convenient for people who want to refer to certain pieces.
concerns are porosity (bubbling from casting) and the thickness of some of the alexander tets and style with some of the coins . Thank you in advance. Danny 11. 12. 13. Edit: fixed 'em again. Remember- FULL SIZE option! ~Mod PS- and if you're gonna drop a baker's dozen of coins in our laps all in one go, at least number them, as a courtesy, to make it easier for folks to reference the individual pieces. (I see you did do that in the now-edited original post.)
Hi Danny. Welcome to CT. Being a relative novice, I can't help you with deciding if your coins are fakes or not. I appreciate the fact that you post your question here; it tells me you're trying to do the right thing. Having said that, don't you think it would be a good idea to authenticate your coins before putting them up for sale? You wouldn't want to sell potential fakes to your customers, would you? And in that context, what am I to make of the 'lifetime guarantee of authenticity' you offer in your store? My advice: do your due diligence before selling.
Yeah Im feeling the pain already , but it was from a trusted source recommended . But your right though - the coins are not for sale , they have been taken down by myself.
Put your cursor where you want to drop the images before you hit the Full Image button. Then it will drop the images in wherever you have the cursor. .
You'll get more help if you post only one coin per thread. And only one thread per day. Asking people to look at 12 coins in one thread is just too much. Usually bad fakes look pretty obvious in photographs. To be totally confident a coin is authentic is a different story. It is a lot easier to tell in hand than from a photograph. Nothing jumps out at me in any of your photos as an obvious fake, which puts you way ahead of most people who ask this question. There have been various threads posted giving hints on how to tell if a coin is fake or not. You can find them by searching or maybe somebody has them bookmarked. The site forum ancient coins and forgery network both maintain archives of fakes that you can search for matches with your coins. Good luck, John
If it's your intention to use the opinions of the collectors on CoinTalk, based only on viewing your pictures, as some sort of assurance or proof of authenticity, in order to sell these coins to others, I think you'll find that most collectors here consider that to be highly unethical and will not offer their opinions on these coins. The ethical approach is to have the coins authenticated in hand by an accepted expert in ancient Greek and Roman coins, and accompany each coin with a written copy of that expert's opinion. I sincerely hope you decide to take this approach.
