Sounds like an admirable pursuit.! Great way to get enjoyment out of the hobby...
These would all be things I would look for as making a coin suspect, but in and of themselves would not always guarantee the coin is a fake. A lot...
LOL I saw that this one is being offered by Lanz on EBay yesterday... sigh... I thought that dealers' reputations would be important, but I guess...
Pretty cool! What's your next project? o_O
Nah, definitely not an ancient coin. Agree with the others that it is some kind of fantasy piece. The legends on the reverse don't appear legible...
Wow. Crazy, but it is a die match with ones posted in Ilya Prokopov's Fake Ancients Database. Would have fooled me at first glance, but not after...
Baletium, a Messapian mint in ancient Calabria whose location is still disputed, had dolphins on their (exceedingly rare) coinage which is dated...
I think that those are two 8-pointed stars above the wolf - see image below. Seems to be pretty consistent on these issues (Courtesy VCoins)......
In my other collecting area, the (more recent) coinage of East Frisia, there was a silver 1 1/2 Reichstaler of Georg Christian (1660-1665) which...
I would echo the comments of others stating that there are always rare variants of common types, or rare provincial issues of which only one has...
Sigh... I still can't get over that Lanz keeps selling those fake Mark Antony legionary denarii.... I figure Lanz would have figured out by now...
Better than my recent experience. In an auction a month ago, I actually had the high bid, but was bidding through Biddr and the electronic signal...
Same goes for me. I usually double the hammer price to estimate what I will pay with bidder's premium and shipping for European and British...
I would agree. The Victoriatus (#1) would have fooled me if fake; like @SeptimusT I think it may be a genuine worn specimen. #4 (maybe) and #9-11...
ATG stands for Alexander the Great. Copper (Ae) coins with obverse Alexander as Herakles and reverse club and bow with Alexander's name in between...
looks legit to me as well. can't help out on the details though, not my area of specialization...
I would agree with the consensus that it is genuine, but I also agree that it's not Alexander but a later ruler. All the Alexander reverses I'm...
From a marketing point of view, it should simply not be worth the dealer's hit to his reputation to sell these types of coins. Mentally, I am much...
I would agree with @Harry G... looks like an official but badly corroded denarius of Severus Alexander...
Yep - definitely fake due to the poor style of the portrait on the obverse, for one thing...
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