I have never traded a coin. The concept suffers from what economists call the "double coincidence of wants". There are two people A and B. A has...
This looks like a great deal. I don't collect Chinese coins and I know next to nothing about them. Yet, I have quite a few, which were gifted to...
Great coin and super write-up. I have all types of the "series" except of course the SPES PVBLICA and I don't think I will ever own one. It is...
Unfortunately, I cannot identify the coin. By default, these coins get attributed to the Vandals, a Germanic people that entered Africa in 429...
A nice 2 (2.5)-Nummi piece minted at Ticinium. These coins are typically very poorly executed, perhaps owing to the fact that Ticinium was a newly...
Fantastic coin. The lion is so lifelike and the bust is great. However, the price is very hefty. I wouldn't be so keen on this rainbow toning...
Very nice and attractive! I love the well-centered reverse. However, the figure on the reverse is almost certainly not meant to be the Emperor....
The good old Goths are vastly underrepresented in the discussions on this forum. Hence, I thought I discuss a couple of interesting Gothic coins...
Very true, I remember the legendary Michel Dürr sale in Geneva of barbarian coins in November 1999. Many of the coins turned up months later at...
My coin is from Künker Auction 334, lot 2181 Künker attributed the coin to Annius Rufus: "Annius Rufus, 12-15. Æ-Prutah, year 39 (=12),...
Here is another interesting "barbaric" Leo I tremissis. This one is not in my collection. Ex: Pecunem auction 3, 5. May 2013, Lot 313 [ATTACH]...
I see no reason to doubt the coins' authenticity.
Interesting article, thanks for sharing. It reenforces my resolve to stay away from Chinese coins. He says that coins that were outside China...
I have all the Roman Procurators of Judaea. I think it is a nice little series with great historical appeal. I visited Jerusalem a couple of years...
... next to Visigothic coins of the 7th century. These crude coins were faked to an extent that at some point most dealers would not touch them. I...
I don't collect Chinese coins and I know next to nothing about them. I have some very rudimentary knowledge from websites like this one:...
It would seem so. Ancient Chinese coin hoards have been found in large numbers and individual hoards are sometimes measured not by number of...
Someone who puts fake coins in cow dung for years would probably not hesitate to fake a provenance either. I think in this case provenance counts...
That is the question, can anyone actually certify these coins, i.e. can someone determine with certainty if they are genuine or not.
A search on acsearch produces well over 20 of these Wang Mang key coins, which at least have been sold as genuine. I'm no expert, but mine looks...
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