[ATTACH] [ATTACH] The Wildwinds coin came from a UBS sale in 2006. It was the host coin for this fake and a number of others that have appeared...
Fabric is wrong, luster is wrong for a high grade coin, line above the legend on the right is wrong, weight is a full gram light. Barry Murphy.
Unfortunately the Valentinian solidus is a modern forgery. Barry Murphy.
At 21899, which would have shown as the current high bid, 21001 would not have been accepted. The next acceptable bid would have be 22899 which...
I doubt this was a shill bid. The estimate was $15,000 so $21899 isn't excessively over the estimate. I often time bid odd numbers. At this level...
The crusades were long over in the late 1700’s. The Chios and other Greek imitations copy earlier doges from the 1400’s. There are some later...
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[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The images can be enlarged, even on my phone. It’s not close in terms of style or fabric.
The elephant side has to be the obverse. The slight concavity of the implement side clearly suggests that the elephant die was the anvil die, and...
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Here's another coin from the same Octavian die. Most of the hair looks fairly original except for the hair below the ear that seems to have been...
The coin posted above as one of the best preserve has been heavily smoothed in the fields, more so on the Octavian side. I would want to check the...
Its a forgery of a Zecchino of Alvise IV (1763-1778). Barry Murphy
Clavdivs, your post did prompt my post but your’s wasn’t the first. I run into this a lot. You were just so over the top happy with your “forever...
It’s a forgery.
Just pondering.... On occasion coins are posted here by members that have issues that the member is not aware of, be that tooling, repairs,...
Oh yeah. I saw this posted here or Facebook or somewhere a week or so ago. Thanks for the link. Wow, a lot of unsold lots.
Which auction was this? Just curious.
Back in the 90’s, Stack’s was well known to bury good coins in unphotographed large lots in their Coin Gallery sales. I used to take the train to...
This is a forgery. Barry Murphy
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