Good luck and sorry for your bad experience.
If it is a reputable auction house you should be able to return the lot. I would start conversation immediately - you may lose out on the postage...
I am sorry to say this looks very fake to me. We have had a long discussion on another thread about a similar coin - see under World Coins, "1914...
... and as the previous poster doesn't seem to have got to his Gothic Crown yet, here is mine. (I know it has been posted on other threads!) [ATTACH]
Previous posts have covered most of the larger Vicky British coins, so here are some of the tiddlers from my collection. Clockwise from top left:...
I generally don't go for the Italian coins much, except this. Not the best example I know but as a filler in an album bought at auction I am happy...
FitzNigel is right that the Merk was derived from the English Mark at 13s 4d however by 1669 inflation in Scotland had galloped away so the buying...
Thanks for that - very useful. It does seem the one you provided a link to is being a bit hopeful! From what I can see on E**y around the USD 100...
As the OP presumably knows this is actually about shilling sized - about one inch across. I have a coincraft book on Scottish coins which lists...
I am in the UK and have only Krause to cover US coins. I recently discovered this in a job lot of "foreign" coins bought locally at auction....
Thanks for all that! Yes - with Brexit I guess USD68 is probably closer to the exchange but, as it is not leaving the country anytime soon, that...
I picked this up today for GBP 50 (around USD 75). Did I do alright? What grade would you give it? I have ID'ed it as a Denarius of L Opemius in...
It is a while since I picked up something new worth posting, but I think this is pretty nice. Australia One Crown (pre-decimilisation), 0.925...
If those are worth USD 50 over there I am going to have to start sending my foreign spares across the pond! In the UK I would expect the Spanish...
I agree with Insider's comments about the impossibility of giving definitive answers on authenticity on the basis of pictures alone. I would add...
Unfortunately there are lots of fakes coming into the local auction houses over here at present, so beware if you are bidding online. They usually...
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