A new Aureus which came in a group lot of "plated" coins [ATTACH] doesn't appear to be plated, with no core showing even with a deep scrape on...
the ebay listing wasn't selling it as genuine "Roman 289 -245 BC Republic. Aes grave, type of, repro Janus/ Mercury head. Copying the type T&V I...
[ATTACH] yeah, from this group lot.
I was going to try to put my top 10 up earlier, but at least there are still a few hours left in the year :angelic: [ATTACH] this one and the...
Arabian or some other imitation maybe?
as a seller on eBay what I have found is that basically anytime someone asks any question whatsoever before shipping, you should probably just...
It’s an overstrike, with a romanus iii overstruck on an earlier coin, but the obverse portrait didn’t get struck well..
Artemis?
[ATTACH] Roman Denarius + Eraviscan imitation
Ebay could easily get 95%+ of the fakes removed by having one slightly knowledgeable person spend 5 mins a week removing the obvious fake sellers..
yeah.. been going on for years.. here's one from 2018.. [ATTACH] +2019 [ATTACH]
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I think Tiberius+ an Antony legionary denarius
Someone far after Spartas peak, Sparta first minted coins only around 265 BC + even then, I think only to pay mercenaries, When Sparta was at...
Yeah.. maybe they put some low quality coins in dirt to create uncleaned coins? Or damaged by farm equipment or something.
My guess is real but smoothed + repatinated
Well if they are all fakes... whoever made them just wasted $65,000 in gold to make 264 solid gold coins, (which will likely never end up for...
[ATTACH] I have a Romanus I follis that looks like someone did something similar..
Not really.. 3 grams underweight, style way off , doesn’t appear to have enough gold, seller didn’t know what it was, flan shape is off from...
[IMG] [ATTACH] sold for only $80 less than a lot of 400 of them lol,, maybe it was even in the lot..
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