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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2684738, member: 56859&quot;]Nice!!&nbsp; Those seem hard to come by in good condition.&nbsp; Yours has a much better strike and centering than the ones I recall seeing <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Okay <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I picked up my first scarab in the recent CNG auction.&nbsp; I&#039;ve wanted one for some time but really don&#039;t know much about them-- including how to distinguish authentic from fake.&nbsp; CNG has scarabs once a year or so and I figured the likelihood of a fake is less with them, plus this one has more of a pedigree than some.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve unsuccessfully tried to win scarabs in past CNG auctions but this time stuck.&nbsp; It was the only one I bid on and I was very happy to win it and for less than estimate and with only one incremental bid.&nbsp; I like the unmistakable depiction of Isis and the sentiment expressed by the cartouche.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seller&#039;s images.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/3930805.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Blue glazed steatite scarab. Egypt, Late Period, 664-332 BC. Face engraved with winged Isis standing right before a solar disk and a cartouche containing r’nfr, or “may beauty exist”; below, the hieroglyph n’b or “lord” (14x10mm). Crack down center with some very minor loss of material on back.</p><p><i>Ex Christie’s London ‘Fine Antiquities,’ 10 July 1991, lot 85 (part of).</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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