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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1009289, member: 57463&quot;]Yes, yes, and yes...&nbsp; If you goto the ANA Website (<a href="http://www.money.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.money.org" rel="nofollow">www.money.org</a>) on the Left under Membership (and also as a popup on the homepage) you will find a link for Dealers.&nbsp; ANA member dealers adhere to a strict code of conduct.&nbsp; You can search by ZIP code.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I have to <b>disagree with Ardatirion</b>:&nbsp; with ancients the <b>weights are more consistent</b> than the diameters.&nbsp; The law said that the moneyer -- elected position every one or two years -- would be given this weight of silver and to make this many thousands of coins from that, which would define the weight per coin.&nbsp; Also, note that for a town with a trading partner on a different standard, they would make their coins some fraction like 5/4 of the other guy&#039;s to make it work out.&nbsp; However, the coins were struck hot -- cherry red, we think -- not cold like ours today and the dies had no collars.&nbsp; So, diameters varied.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Just a quibble, there.&nbsp; Ardie is someone I look to for what I do not know.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I checked <a href="http://www.coinarchives.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com" rel="nofollow">www.coinarchives.com</a> for examples from Sabaea and the Himyarites&nbsp; and wider for &quot;Arabia&quot; (and even Felix as the Romans called this &quot;Felix Arabia&quot;) but found nothing close to this example.&nbsp; Still, if genuine, then, indeed, an ancient coin with merits of its own.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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