You also could send it to David Sear for authentification. Sometimes easier when you can see and feel the thing "in the flesh"... Pics have their...
I don't think it's fake, but I'm not 100% sure it's genuine...
Search CNG's archive with "red deposits" keywords, you will see plenty of examples ;)
Nothing bad, just some sort of benign deposits...
Hard to be sure just from the pics, but I too would tend toward authentic... The coin look struck to me, details are strong, devices are sharp......
Sorry to always be the bearer of bad news, but it's fake :( [IMG]
Charles... If, by any chance, you can take higher resolution pics of the coin... I, and others I'm sure, would be interested in seeing them, in...
Don't know if others contacted Charles about this coin, but I'm not the one who "dated" it... Just for the records...
Since I was the person who contacted Charles about that coin I should elaborate a little about my concerns I guess. I was, and I'm still, not sure...
A coin is only worth what it sells for. Anyone can ask $100K for a common LRB, doesn't mean it's worth that price. If it doesn't sell, it's worth...
"india silver bull" in acsearch gave me some good leads :cool: Had no idea beforehand :dead:
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=352780 o_O
I've had packages that disappeared from tracking once they left their country of origin, and just reappeared in my mail box... Just got mixed up...
Would rather say Quintillus with Mars reverse... http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=909019
The "woman's" name is Apollo imo ;)
Something like this maybe ?...
Not much help for attribution (BMC Mysia p. 134, 5 ff. var (field symbols)), but here's another one with star in fields......
http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/15556/ :shame:
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http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=216045 :p
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