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"For the relative sequence of the earlier emissions could not be established with certainty therefore I usually number the emissions backwards...
Not sure I understand it correctly, but this might answer your question (:scratch:)... http://www.helsinki.fi/iehc2006/papers1/Petranyi.pdf
Yours would be Ceka 3, BMC 15-16 I guess...
There's a good list by Ceka numbers here... http://home.kpn.nl/fschinkel/apollonia.htm
These are excessively rare, they go for 100k+ in much worst condition ( http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=540162 ). The style tries to copy...
That would be an attempt to copy an Alexander III dekadrachm I guess...
My favorite women :hail: Galeria Valeria AE Follis...
Nasty scratches, patina mostly cleaned off, legends partly worn-out,... 175$ maybe (not that I would pay that price)...
Exactly... My point being, in reference with the op, that I wouldn't consider 80-95% of the ae's shown in this forum to be "tooled" in this regard...
Creating or re-creating details that never were or are worn-out is going too far for me. Other than that I would consider "normal", if done in a...
Well, not much into Roman coins, less and less with time, but I still have 2 sestertii of Pius that I didn't part from... yet :too-cool-for:...
Would be intersting to compare with coins of same dies (can't find any unfortunately). I would have been less surprised to read that no 2 is plain...
Not sure, but I agree with Doug in regards to no 1 (as well as repatinated, maybe ?). Would definitely with no 2 personally...
...and he's on FORVM fake sellers list...
I wouldn't touch it personally (I think I see casting pearls :scratch:). Several of his coins I find quite doubtfull also... and he had a few negs...
Satraps of Caria, Hekatomnos AR Tetradrachm...
Kings of Paeonia, Lykkeios AR Tetradrachm...
Thrace, Chersonesos AR Hemidrachm...
The fact that the seller knows what he sells, having attributed the thing quite correctly, he must know what these are worth if genuine. I can't...
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