Great group! Have fun with them! (I actually backed out of bidding on this lot). I really have no idea. Same here
I strongly think they are not authentic
Nice to see they graded it right. I thought they were going to give it the “early classic US” bump.
$37. Somewhere in this thread, @Cascade sold an uglier one for 4 times as much. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Western Han “Wu Zhu”, with a slipped obverse mould error. Neat coin! :)
The color and the rims are the first two things that jumped out to me as fake.
I have many broken extremely rare Chinese coins. And I love them all the same because their current state made them affordable. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
AU-55
THOUSANDS. They spend on average 7 seconds per coin.
I’d love to, and I think I’d probably be qualified (given that there would be a learning curve to go through ancients with considerable speed and...
The most recent results for VF details on Heritage were in the $1500 range. I’d say $2000 is generous. The obverse fields are full of severe and...
I think it is properly graded.
Less expensive than 1794
The die marriage studies on modern coins, particularly early US coins, DO provide information that was not recorded, such as practices at the US...
I see thins often in ancients as well. Many ancients collectors collect by variety and spend much time trying to determine die matches. Not much...
I am currently translating 100-year-old Italian books in an effort to write an article about the origins of Florentine coinage and their effect on...
My gut says fake
I’ve noticed far more competition in Ancient Chinese coins since I have started posting about them :(
Good to hear you are okay! I have had several close calls like that. They always give you pause. I almost always ignore weather alerts when I am...
The OP coin was overdipped and retoned. Nearly all of the luster has been destroyed.
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