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[ATTACH] Roman Republican silver denarius c. 47 BC
The Aspendos is a nice specimen and should be worth $400 without much doubt. It could be faulted for being short some of the legend at the left...
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=similar%3A470#0 It is a fake copying Panticapaeum with Pan head / griffin. If real = $10-50K...
The cheapest gold is Byzantine but the question is whether you consider it ancient. For a bit more you can get a solidus (three times the size of...
It is common in the popular press to assume that everyone is as ignorant as the experts writing the story. 'Silver sovereigns' is a modern...
Perhaps this thread would have a longer life if you defined what you consider close enough to the red line on your map to be called Silk Road and...
I have a few other coins with the circular marks to some degree but all are Emesa mint denarii suggesting that the technique may have been...
Whether they are rust removal marks or just polish from filing, the diagonal lines shown here must go away after a few strikes. I don't have one...
The obverse legend reads Elizabeth DG (by the Grace of God) of (ANG) England, FRA (France) and HIBernia (Ireland) REGINA (Queen). She would be...
To be on the fair side, Red Figure pottery of the best style is late 6th to early 4th centuries BC which is similar to the range of the best...
Actually your enlarger will help you make excellent photos of coins. All you have to do is remove and throw away the enlarger parts and fashion a...
My first thought was that the coin was porous. As is my custom when seeing a doubted coin, I looked at other offerings of the seller just to see...
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Cast counterfeits - definitely. Lead? I'm not so sure. [ATTACH] This is cast. I believe it is ancient but have no idea how to prove it. Molds...
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fake.html On my page or 'exceptions' above, only the Albinus is not 100% identifiable as fake from the...
The problem I see here is that coin could be 100 years old and still a modern fake.
I only partially agree. Some fakes can be identified with 100% certainty from a photo. These are coins known to be made by modern fakers whose...
The first milled silver appeared between 1561 and 1571. The story goes that the manufacturer, Eloye Mestrelle, was then disgraced and hanged for...
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