For your sake I hope it is the pictures, but based on them the coin appears to have been harshly cleaned and polished.
The weight is exactly what it should be, I suspect you are correct.
He was permanently banned from Coin Talk for his repeated refusals to follow forum rules.
If they did make a mistake, it would be the first I ever heard of in regard to authenticity.
Howdy bespetna - Welcome to the Forum !! The coin you have is a Venetian ducat, not thousands of years old but hundreds. The pictures do...
Yes, it is slabbed by ANACS.
And how many purchases do you think you'd have to make ( at wholesale prices ) to cover that ?
You speak with scorn and derision as if gold and silver were somehow better, but they weren't in reality. The Indians who used wampum as money...
EF details - harshly cleaned.
And it's truly a beauty :bow:
It's not that they didn't catch it, it's that when it was slabbed the person who submitted it did not request error or variety attribution and pay...
No form of money is inferior to any other as long as it is still accepted as money, its very nature determines that.
First of all are you sure that it's paint and not gold plating on the coins ? In either case the coins are for all intents and purposes ruined and...
Why ? Who says that gold and silver retain their value ? For that matter who says that gold and silver have any value to begin with ? No, I'm not...
You can find the answers to your questions here - Variety & Error Coins
I usually stay out of these discussions but I can't resist mentioning something here. If you look at money in general from a historical point of...
Gentlemen - keep it civil. You obviously disagree on the point so let it go at that. You can debate the issue from til doomsday and you will get...
CCE is an electronic network created so that coin dealers could offer their wares to each other all across the country in one location. The beauty...
There are many things you need a loupe for when collecting coins. And because there are many uses there many different powers of magnification...
You misunderstood my comment Andrew. I said - any more collectible than any other coin. That's because I believe all coins are equally collectible.
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