I have come to the conclusion that collectors of Greek coins reading/posting in CT and other forums are just a small part of the community...
It's all about the benjamins....
I started with the hypothesis that Bourgey who sold the coin to de Luynes, the collector himself and later the experts who saw the coin over the...
Well this one got a honorable mention as it is starting at 65k
Unfortunately, I would prefer to avoid explaining why this is a fake. We do not need to train more forgers. Normally a collector willing to spend...
This one is the BnF de Luynes example: [ATTACH] And this fake currently appears in a French auction. Strangely enough, the forgers decided to...
I noticed this coin in a platform auction for some time now, but I wasn't sure which coin was used as the mother to create it. Both Gillet and BCD...
Especially coins from such old collections may have surface issues because of harsh cleaning. The kimon may get a 3/5 surface for this. A real...
Demeter, in despair over the seizure of her daughter Persephone by Hades, ate poppies in order to fall asleep and forget her grief. [ATTACH]
ΜΦΙΠ so it's from Amphipolis, I don't know the exact type but I am sure you will find something in acsearch eg like this one...
If the photo is not fooling me, I believe that there are some light green residues of material someone used to create an imprint of your coin.
A wrong provenance given in an auction catalog? I am shocked :)
with all due respect if your coin is in Naville 11, why do you care about the Antiqua catalog?
Yes they are insured but the consignment is insured for the estimate only which may be half or a third of the real market value. So in case of...
If the consignment is lost in transport or stolen from the auctioneer before the auction takes place, guess what the consignor gets :bored:
Well this is a totally different type which is earlier than the kunker one. It went that high because of the profile head of the turtle which is...
It's from the collection of Napoleon who slept with it under his pillow the night before the battle of Waterloo. A coin elf witnessed it and told...
IMHO it would have been more helpful if they told you where did they get it from in 2001 than who bought it from them...
The coin with the banker's stamp sold for 1600 euros. The price without this mark would be 4000-5000 euros. Someone did the repair in an effort to...
Yes, unfortunately you need to check the history of each coin yourself and not assume that experts-advisors-dealers checked it already. And yes...
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