If you provide the reference you want and I can confirm it, I will add the reference to the ticket. I will only do this for a limited number of...
I doubt the first coin is authentic. Odd portrait and the font on the reverse is wrong. Barry Murphy
Just to help you out a bit, these are examples showing what your coin should look like. Notice how the neck line and chin merge on your coin, yet...
The surfaces, portrait style, the way the neck and chin are cut off, the way the devices meet the fields. Barry Murphy
Unfortunately Kevin your coin is a modern forgery. Barry
There are also other 9.8ish gram staters from: The Tyntenians Aigai Poteidaia (Corinthian type) Barry Murphy
From Kuenker Sale 304 (march 2018), lot 262 MACEDONIA. SKIONE. AR-Didrachme, 480/470 v. Chr.; 8,65 g. Kopf des Protesilaos r. mit Helm//In...
Skione Didrachms are very rare. I handled one in the 90’s. It may be in CNG 36 or 40 although I could be off. I seem to recall it from about this...
There are Macedonian staters from other cities and Macedonian tribes struck in this weight range: "Lete" Neapolis Orreski Ichnai Mygdones or...
There are tetradrachms in the 17-17.2 range and didrachms in the 8.2-8.8 range. Nothing in the 9.8 range. Barry Murphy
Send me the numbers I can tell you when it was graded. I can’t tell you who sent it in. Barry Murphy
Paper is very abrasive. I would not put coins in direct contact with paper lose in trays. The sliding will wear the coins very quickly. Barry Murphy
It's from Nysa in Lydia, at least according to RPC, and they call it tooled. https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/11501 Barry Murphy
You can’t see the edges of the Caligula in these photos so you can’t say you’ve seen worse edges get a pass. I suspect you’re looking at coins...
I don’t remember the edge marks on this specific coin. But if we didn’t mention them we would get complaints for not mentioning them. As they can...
With ancients, if a coin is returned as not eligible (a coin type we don’t do) or No Decision (as the coin in this discussion was returned) there...
Unfortunately your coin dealer friend is ranting about nothing. If we didn’t grade it, he didn’t pay the grading fees. Barry Murphy
surface and fine style are unrelated. Style has to do with how the dies were engraved. Surface has to do with things that happen to the coin after...
No different than these..... Barry Murphy[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Whatever Doug. No ones trying to argue photos of coins outside holders aren't better than those inside. You said NGC can't take a picture through...
Separate names with a comma.
