A nice addition. Happy B-day too :)
yeah, these are pretty cool
Its a modern replica of a coin of Gela. The actually is silver.
I agree, they look more Indian than Celtic. Not my area though :o
lets see your denarii edit: oh well :)
How rare are these?
Then some like these that may have been rushed with less care taken
I agree. Condition aside, these 4 LRB at time they were minted, may been considered as artistic, and the artists as talented or on the same...
I guess I completely failled to make my point. I was saying the criticising modern coins was analogous to people doing the same with LRB. "They're...
I kinda have to disagree a little. On ancients coins, they had a specific design they had to fallow right? On the 50 state quarters, people had...
And these are the coins I'm thinking of. I could easily see these tossed in the "black cabinet" as modern with out much thought given.
:yes: edit: btw this is an actual sgs slab :D just changed the coin and tag
No, its not a Dragon, but does look like em ;) edit: I'll PM you my addy for that cookie :D Thats what I think
That's one of the things that got me thinking about it.
I posted 2. I was using BB code which I guess still doesnt show up everyone...
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Some ancients were carried in the mouth :yes:
I was wondering how often ancient cast forgeries had been condemned as a modern cast forgery and thought I'd see what some of you think.
Nothing like the color of money
Funny you mention green. This was one, of Pius, I was contemplating on posting instead. Edit: and here's another green one for Doug
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