I believe coin #3 is from Carthage ~300BC and coin #2 is from Sicily ~400 BC. I don't know what the others are. Any help identifying these would be appreciated! other side:
Sizes and weights will help, but are some likely candidates in terms of place of issue. Go to Wildwinds or CNG's archives and you'll probably be able to pin them down. 1. SELEUKID KINGS (not sure which one). Apollo obverse, bull reverse 2. SICILY, Akragas. 3. yes, Carthage 4. SICILY, Syracuse. 5. TROAS, Assos. 6. CAMPANIA, Cales. If you get stuck let us know, but I thought you might want to satisfaction of finding the full attribution yourself after a nudge in the right directions (although I can't promise that my list is correct)
#1 is Seleucus II Antioch 246-226 BC Obvs: Laureate head of Apollo right. Revs: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Bull standing l. I have one, just not photographed yet.
Well, #'s 1 and 3 were the only coins I would've been able to help with...but TIF and David seem to have already done that.
No. A real problem is that severe, abusive cleaning reduces the value of a genuine coin so much that the question as to whether it is real or not becomes moot from a 'value' perspective. I can't 'prove' these photos show real or genuine coins. Such cleaning removes some signs of being genuine that would make me more likely feel comfortable with them. If I saw the coins in person at a coin show and examined them determining that I though they were probably good, I still would not be interested in them. I am not as concerned with condition as many people but I would rather pay $80 for an example twice as nice as $8 for these. There are two questions. Are they authentic? If we don't want them, does it matter? That is being too rough. If I were unable to find a better example of the first three and if I convinced myself they were good, I'd buy them for $8 (maybe a bit more for 1 &2?) as space fillers.
