I might use Jax on the bare metal spots, though I’ve never tried it before. The glare makes them look rougher than they actually are. [ATTACH]...
“Over-cleaned" would have been a more accurate description, but some nice coins in the bunch. 37 Licinius, 10 Constantine I, and three others I...
It is amazing. I've posted photos elsewhere (but on Forvm, maybe). The second floor also has the majority of the Roman art collection as well as...
Interesting--I never suspected that, he always seemed genuinely concerned with exposing counterfeits.
Wasn't that coin originally authenticated by a leading French scholar who produced a major study on the type? I remember DinX posting a follow-up...
Upstairs from the display you captured in the photograph is an entire room devoted to ancient coins.
Yes, at the NYINC, but the coin turned out to be fake.
I’d have assumed NN went through the usual vetting procedures and included a signed affidavit in the package. Or did customs want proof beyond...
Right. “Condition when stopped circulating” might have been better. The point is that one goes beyond the original artist’s design when tooling.
But you can’t really restore it to its original state, right? It wouldn’t be the original state but a “restored” state. So unless you mean...
It is undoubtedly fake. You can try and rationalize it but the coin just isn’t right, for the reasons others have said.
That would be smoothing. You use a “tool” which is why Ras said technically it is tooling, but that isn’t the true technical meaning of the term...
It is a lot of work which is why mistakes can happen. I think at least some of these specific coins should have been spotted though. But the OP...
They do their own photography.
Fantastic coin, Jochen.
I bet they’ll accept the return.
I agree. I don’t understand your argument @IdesOfMarch01
Who sold them to you?
You can always have them bound. If you order in bulk and only care about utility it isn’t terribly expensive.
Totally fake, imo.
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