Great write-up and coins. My one Tacitus: Tacitus, silvered billon Antoninianus, Lugdunum [Lyons] Mint, First Officina, 275-276 AD. Obv....
I still lean towards the coin in the OP being genuine: I suspect that the blurriness is more in the photo than in the coin itself.
Great examples of the rhino coin, @David Atherton and @rg3! Here's mine, along with a few other pachyderms associated with the Colosseum:...
They probably also view his fraud as beneficial, in the sense that -- in their opinion -- for every fake antiquity he manufactured and sold, one...
It looks fine to me. I believe it's this type: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/coins/geta_007.html. See also...
I am reasonably sure it's based on the Sumerian calendar, and was not converted into any modern calendar.
When I posted my new Claudius I - Messalina Alexandrian tetradrachm in the OP, I mentioned that I needed to take my own photo, because the...
Is "Mr. ID Help" really implying that he's better at recognizing fakes than @Barry Murphy?
Very, very nice! Especially in that condition. My oldest human-made artifact: Sumerian biscuit-shaped cuneiform tablet with impressed cuneiform...
I guess it's time to throw my last three cards on the table, since I have no Roman (or Byzantine) coins later than these: Theodosius I, AE3...
My eight coins from the Gallienus Zoo Series -- centaur, gryphon, antelope, doe, gazelle, tigress, hippocamp, and pegasus. So four real animals...
Seems a bit lenient, doesn't it? But then again, everyone knew about Sadigh for decades, and the DA's office never went after him at all until now.
No jail time recommended for Sadigh after guilty plea: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/arts/design/fake-antiquities-mehrdad-sadigh.html...
Africa also holds a scorpion on Hadrian's travel series denarius depicting her.
In most circumstances I would agree with your position. Not in this one.
Common sense qualifies me in this case, given that it was necessary for the buyer to "do[] something" to the coin in order to know that there was...
Absurd analogy. Rejecting a return in these circumstances is what would be poor etiquette. Any honest dealer would be embarrassed to do so.
Great coin. Small world: that first denarius you posted is my coin! I posted it most recently on Sept. 6 in the Septimius September thread.
As a legal matter, I think you're completely wrong and should stop repeating yourself. The buyer didn't alter the coin itself here; he removed the...
Kopf means head, of course. Sheisse in Yiddish = Scheiße in German = a common four-letter word in English beginning with sh.
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