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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4682020, member: 110350"]I don't see anyplace at this link where it's claimed that the coin has been in a collection continuously for 2,000+ years. Or are you suggesting that the only possible way the coin could look like this -- namely, as if it were struck last week! -- would be if it had actually been preserved in a collection continuously since its manufacture? In other words, given the impossibility of such a history, are you really implying that the coin, despite its impressive provenance, is a fake? (I admit that even though this coin is not from Apollonia Pontika, I've recently looked at so many real and fake gorgons from that town that there's something about the gorgon on this coin that looks suspicious to me. Perhaps that it's too perfect?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4682020, member: 110350"]I don't see anyplace at this link where it's claimed that the coin has been in a collection continuously for 2,000+ years. Or are you suggesting that the only possible way the coin could look like this -- namely, as if it were struck last week! -- would be if it had actually been preserved in a collection continuously since its manufacture? In other words, given the impossibility of such a history, are you really implying that the coin, despite its impressive provenance, is a fake? (I admit that even though this coin is not from Apollonia Pontika, I've recently looked at so many real and fake gorgons from that town that there's something about the gorgon on this coin that looks suspicious to me. Perhaps that it's too perfect?)[/QUOTE]
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