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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 7754173, member: 91461&quot;]Sure did! Though I had the inside tip on some of these beauties coming to market<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I was fortunate enough to win 3 of 7 marks<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>2 of which I&#039;m proud to say are ex bcuda (El iberico)<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie83" alt=":singing:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1328190[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>IBERIA, Gadir. </b>Circa 150-100 BC. Æ Quarter Unit (17.5mm, 2.04 g, 6h). Head of Melqart left, wearing lion skin; club over shoulder / Dolphin over trident left. ACIP 681. Earthen dark green patina, area of weak strike on reverse. VF.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>From El Iberico Collection.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Funny enough, you had just upgraded your version of this coin if I recall correctly. And I just upgraded my busted piece with one of yours<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1328195[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]1328192[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><i><b>IBERIA, Kastilo. </b>Early 2nd century BC. Æ As (31mm, 26.02 g, 9h). Diademed head of male right / Griffin standing right, raising forepaw; to right, star above forepaw, KO (in Iberian) below. ACIP 2113. Earthen green-brown patina. Good Fine.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><i>From El Iberico Collection.</i></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>And lastly, I finally won an ancient die!!! Possibly an ancient forgers. It&#039;s a very unique item that I plan on writing up when I&#039;ve recieved and know more.</p><p>For starters, does anyone have a copy of, <i>New York Sale XI (11 January 2006), lot 374?</i></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1328197[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Antoninus Pius. </b>AD 138-161. Forger’s PB impression or die for a sestertius (35mm, 53.60 g, 12h). Copying a Rome mint issue of AD 161. CONSECRATIO, four-tiered funeral pyre topped by facing quadriga; S C in exergue; all in incuse and retrograde. Cf. RIC III 1266; cf. Banti 75 (for official strike). A few scratches on reverse, spot of roughness. VF.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the WD Collection, purchased from David Vagi, January 2007. Ex New York Sale XI (11 January 2006), lot 374.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>When a counterfeiter prepared his dies, he could either engrave them himself, in a style easily to be distinguished from official mint issues, or he could use a genuine, mint-issued host coin. He would then impress this design into a piece of piece of metal and affix it to the iron die-shaft. This object may represent a counterfeiter’s first attempt, a practice strike in lead, as lead is generally too soft a metal for striking coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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