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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 8353803, member: 74282&quot;]Ancient coins being found and no one really knows what they are are quite rare. The vast majority of coins found that aren&#039;t in the reference material are small legend variations, small variations in how an emperor&#039;s bust is rendered(basically small details like what&#039;s on their shoulder), different placements of symbols, small variations in symbols like monograms, etc. There are some areas such as archaic fractions from Asia Minor where there are larger numbers of coins that can&#039;t be assigned to a particular city or authority, and there are some small issues from Greece that similarly have no legends and can&#039;t be assigned to a specific city or authority.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, the majority of coins I see in my collecting area described as &quot;unpublished&quot; actually aren&#039;t. It&#039;s usually just a dealer or collector who doesn&#039;t have the right references or doesn&#039;t know how to use the references. I would not trust any dealer calling a coin &quot;unpublished&quot; nor assume you can figure out if a coin is unpublished or not unless you have a rather large reference library of recent papers, references and major collection sales and you understand how to use the references and know which papers and auctions actually have unpublished coins in them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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