With all our discussions about fakes I thought this might interest some of you. A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to six months imprisonment...
It's not a genuine ancient. As Ardatirion mentioned it's a fantasy/tourist piece.
It'll take them a little time to have things running as smoothly as Dave Surber did it, but their are new admins in place....
Thracian Cherronesos hemidrachms are really neat coins & prices on them seem to have been going up recently from what I've seen. Barry Murphy put...
Yes, please post the pics here or use something like photobucket and post them that way. From the thumbnails the first appears to be a coin of...
Very nice Eduard. Celtic coins are something I'm always wanting to get more of, but other Ancients and world coins seem to keep me from really...
Wayne Sayles books are a pretty good starting point......
That's quite cool and would fit nicely in a Notgeld collection.
Definitely post the info when you have it.
There's always Spink if you want to buy/see higher end stuff. They're near the British Museum Spink London 69 Southampton Row Bloomsbury London...
I know next to nothing about Byzantine gold, but from looking around they appear to usually go for $350-$450 with a couple varieties going for more.
Looks like it's from a key chain or something to me.
I've never had a few drops of dish soap hurt a coin. Sometimes something more acidic, like olive oil, is needed. Depends on how crusty they are....
Hoard finds are always cool to read about. To bad these will be well out of my price range. Here are three I have from documented hoard...
Thanks for the interesting post Eduard. Shipwreck coins are always so fascinating.
That's a beautiful coin Spock :thumb:
Here's a neat tiny little Greek coin I picked up last night from David Hendin @ Amphora Coins... [IMG] Sigeion, Troas c. 350 BC 12.5 mm 2.01...
:rolling: I have a lot of Constantine The Great coins, but I've always wanted a 'Constantine da Great' one :) Looking at their feedback...
They're Cupronickel to the best of my knowledge.
Ebay is certainly an option. Others would be selling it here in the Open forum or consigning to a dealer like Anthony Wilson (York Coins) or...
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