Well, the counterfeit I posted was a tungsten core, and like Jeff posted is so close to gold sg as to not be differentiable. So that was your...
No, I have read your assertions that how "only a major mint" could replicate such things, (did this come from a RCM press release?). I am simply...
Btw: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/American-Eagle-24k-tungsten-coin-gold_60744472455.html?spm=a2700.7724838.2017115.472.5e401f8e6IzW6W...
I have seen the radial lines and privy mark. WHY can only a large mint fake them? Mints have forever added technology to make it harder to fake,...
Maybe I am missing something. What makes radial lines and a privy mark completely unreproducable? If you say, "sure, they can try to reproduce...
...and the radial lines and privy are not counterfeitable? My point would be whatever coin design you put on a coin can be copied. For it to be...
Anyone who can pick up a loop and know how to authenticate a maple leaf due to radial lines and a privy mark can pick up a loupe and learn to...
Any "anti-counterfeiting" technology will be copied. I think you are being a little too paranoid. Most bullion is real, most dealers are...
I think the OP has a valid point. People who expect a WWIII apocalypse of course should hoard food and weapons. However, I do believe having...
Nice, rare coin. I hear all Nomic coinage is horribly rare.
Yes sir, I am very aware of ATEE. I own every volume Mr. Mitchiner has produced. I am somewhat unconvinced that coins spread from Greece to China...
Thin is not usually a greek coin attribute. It actually looks more Roman than Greek. What does the other side look like?
I agree about the tamghas. Very common feature of Central Asian coinage like Soghdia, etc. The Turks, starting north of China, passed through...
Here is one from a few years ago I bought separately. I have a few others from large lots I don't have imaged. I thought this one was centered...
Always tricky to know if intended or not. I have Sogdian pieces with crosses. Some I am positive it was a intentional cross, others maybe just a...
We have to be careful here. We have to remember the Egyptian civilization is MUCH older than the Greek one which invented coins. Therefore, over...
My understanding of Pharaonic times and coins is now we understand they used Athenian coins extensively. At first, they were treated as bullion,...
First blush, looks like a figural bronze imitating a late roman emperor with spear. I don't recall the type off hand.
Yes sir, they may have been commemorative. Also, they were struck right at the end of his reign, so maybe they simply did not have much time to...
I thought the Kushans, (Yuezhi was name of the people, Kushan was the name of one family in the Yuezhi who came to dominate the group), depicted...
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