Either I'm having a serious instance of deja vu, or there was a detailed thread on this exact subject not so long ago. If you search for it,...
Ditto to @Mat's "Wow." I've never seen anything like that either.
I'm afraid I wasn't offered option 2. It's either a full refund and return it, or keep it.
Not quite, I'm afraid!
I'm very sorry for the loss of your mother. Those are nice coins!
Thanks. In addition to Lucernae, I've bought from Marti more than once as well. Also from Aeternitas. There are lots of really nice Roman coins...
Back on-topic. Instead of choosing one of the options I set out in my OP, I wrote a few hours ago to Perry, the proprietor of Herakles, and gave...
Oh, dear. I didn't mean to leave an inaccurate impression. I don't want to digress for too long, but I'm afraid that there were no aristocrats in...
Sorry for the confusion. I saw the notice on several of his new coins and assumed he had added it to all his coins.
I'll just write "PLATED" directly on the coin with a Sharpie. That should work!
Lucernae, a VCoins dealer in Spain from whom I've made purchases several times, has, within the last week or two, added the following to its...
After all this, and even now that i know there's a 99% chance that my coin is plated/a fourree, I'm still not sure what I want to do!
It would be interesting if an official reverse die matching the hybrid CXXIII examples ever turned up with a proper CXXIII obverse.
I think the two properly matched CIIII obverses are very similar to the obverse of my coin, but not identical. As @abc123 points out, there seem...
I understand what you're saying about nothing being certain absent drilling, but obviously people make estimated determinations about ancient...
Actually, there's a pretty big difference between 3.91 and 3.44. See my list above of the weights of all my Republican coins -- 3.44 is the...
@abc123, thank you so much for this fantastic work! First and foremost, so much for my theory that there are no known examples of a Marius Capito...
I think one might as well tell me to fly to the moon by flapping my arms as to learn to do that!
You're very welcome!
I take it that there's nobody who thinks my coin is a modern forgery? Of course I would return it if I believed that that's what it is.
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