Even we are not planning to do so but accidents happen. I remember once I was showing coin to a friend and it just slipped and fall down and...
is it fragile? It seems like it had some horn silver removed but the coin seems fragile from the photo
wowww this fake was sold for 200+ OMG I'm sure the guy who bought it is so happy thinking he got a great deal! Poor guy!
Nice . Post them here specially the sasanian ones. I love the early sasanian coins from Ardashir to Yazdgird II they are very artistic. You can...
Orfew any plan to collect eastern coins like sasanian?
There is a better cuneiform for Cyrus the great who rescued the Jews and that cuneiform belongs to Iran and Unfortunately Americans looted it and...
Orfew you got some nice flavian coins. I wish you had other stuff too like sasanian, Parthian seleukid or even some second and third century...
I don't care I don't plan to buy a coin that I have doubts no matter how much my doubts are. So in this case I just won't bid on such coin. Let...
Lol this one is funny. Obverse is seleukid and reverse look ptolemiac.
Your gut feeling is probably right as is mine on this. I would not touch such coin and to my surprise its being offered by one of the main...
This surface shows that it was casted and cooled down fast. when you cool down a silver coin very fast you get this surface. nothing to do with age
There is a coin with very similar criss cross surface in Zeno which is condemned as fake. https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=185191
Please note coming across an identical or twin coin is a very very rare incident for detecting fakes. In many cases one might never come across...
I just saw this sasanian coin and I have serious doubts. Now this one I am quite confident it is fake and I am open to hear opposing opinions with...
Thanks. I thought Nero coins are thiner but I confess I have not handled as many so I could be wrong.
I know some might think its genuine but I have doubts. the style doesn't seem right. The coin is too thick . The hair seems very wobbly and not...
Don't forget that some people got so rich as result of covid. Jeff Bezos of Amazon is one of such guys.
You were right in this case! I have not seen this style before but seems it does exist.
You might be right and I hope I am wrong but the style to my eyes look different and I wouldn't buy something like this
My specialty is Sasanian and Parthian coins but I have a side collection of Roman provincial and quite few of them all coming from CNG and Mike...
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