Indeed!
Oh my, there must be a lot of ancient Greek coin trees planted in Munich, I should try to get one.
A collector bidding against dealers is the least to say condemned to lose money. Let's take as an example that I want to bid 2000$ on a coin. If I...
from the VCoins code of ethics: 6. I will not intentionally misrepresent the value of any item, and I will not take unfair advantage of...
As I wrote "Without commenting on this particular case..." So my point was not to criticize this particular person but rather give another...
I think according to the rules of many auctioneers they have the right to decline bids and possibly without a reason. Without commenting on this...
Sorry this happened; at least they weren't extremely valuable nor (I hope) irreplaceable... As others noted already this could have been...
I am not surprised... The cut on the edge is still not described but they mention that a layer of horned (lol) silver was cleaned.
Have a look at this one https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=302040 [ATTACH]
Indeed slabbed ones with the * especially in HA go very high and I did have to overpay for a couple of them I needed. However, several collectors...
The full crest was possible with only a few designs where the head of Athena was relatively small and so with a careful strike you could get the...
The coin is not from the same dies as the Jameson example. The ordering of letters of the magistrate's name is different. I suspect that whoever...
This is crystalization, for more info have a look here https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=crystallization
You can also be proud of holding the world record of hammering 1150 times the starting price :)
I recognize most of the Greek coins, they are offered by the same sellers in vcoins/mashops. Several have been bought by the dealers in auctions...
What about the weight? I can only think of this one which could be a possibility if that is not a sphinx...
Yes a crack in the concave die means that there will be some excess metal on the imprint it leaves. Overstruck means they used a coin of similar...
The excess metal is from a broken die. Here is another from the same broken die. The deep lines that look like scratches are traces of an...
It took me a lot of years before I got a coin of larissa. I was targeting mid to high end and always lost...I surprisingly got this at open price...
Hard to tell from the photo, but I would rather say not fake ...
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