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<p>[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 3585161, member: 97383"]Collect89, Nice score on your Shekel <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />! Despite the huge number of fake "Betrayal Shekels" your coin looks good from the photos. What is the weight of your coin ? The 1st "Betrayal Shekel" in my collection was bought from Harlan Berk over 10 years ago at a very reasonable price, see photos below. What sold me on the coin was the attractive high relief portrait of Melkart. The short comings of the coin are obvious: it's a small, irregular planchet, it has bumps on the thin side of the planchet, & it's been over-cleaned <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. A number of collectors who saw the coin thought it was fake <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I felt confident the coin was good, especially coming from Harlan Berk. Never the less, I did upgrade, sent this coin to NGC for slabbing & put the coin in a Heritage auction 7 years ago. The coin sold for $805.00 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]957024[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]957025[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 3585161, member: 97383"]Collect89, Nice score on your Shekel ;)! Despite the huge number of fake "Betrayal Shekels" your coin looks good from the photos. What is the weight of your coin ? The 1st "Betrayal Shekel" in my collection was bought from Harlan Berk over 10 years ago at a very reasonable price, see photos below. What sold me on the coin was the attractive high relief portrait of Melkart. The short comings of the coin are obvious: it's a small, irregular planchet, it has bumps on the thin side of the planchet, & it's been over-cleaned :(. A number of collectors who saw the coin thought it was fake :confused:. I felt confident the coin was good, especially coming from Harlan Berk. Never the less, I did upgrade, sent this coin to NGC for slabbing & put the coin in a Heritage auction 7 years ago. The coin sold for $805.00 :D. [ATTACH=full]957024[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]957025[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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