Awful example of what’s available on ebay

I'm not interested in the ring... I want the RED PLAY DOH!

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

You don't know where it's been or what it has been used for?

 

LAST CHANCE TO GET JULIUS CAESAR'S ring folks- 26 bids and it is at $77. two more hours- get your snipes ready for this rare one. probably unpublished.https://www.ebay.com/itm/142735109865?ul_noapp=true

 

I think this ring needs Snopes more than snipes.

 

Eesh. Someone got suckered out of$125!

 

Don’t worry, still plenty of great material out there. I found this awesome sestertius earlier, I believe it’s a rare issue of Gordian III... https://m.ebay.com/itm/Ancient-Roma...Pinokio-Exact-Coin-Shown-rm1903-/372266159983

 

Mine all mine. Hoping he will take an offer for half of the asking price.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/202249349962

 

I understand, a must have even at the full price. not sure if the condition is correct tho at XF- maybe send it to NCG after your win Gavin. good luck buddy!

 

What a deal that would be! He is at 100% for feedback as well! With all, lucky number, 13 pleased patrons.

 

Possibly 'Tooled'?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/MARCUS-AUR...m=152971501855&_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985

 

I actually looked at that one, as I am in the market for a Marcus Aurelius large bronze; I do not have an MA coin yet. But I thought it was clearly tooled as well.

You may have posted this coin as an "obvious" tooling job, but since I'm still figuring out how to recognize tooling, I'm thinking that one giveaway is that the lettering in the legends shows wear, whereas the details of the portrait are super-sharp. Such uneven wear is one tooling red flag, correct?

 

I followed the link, and now I’m being pursued by eBay ads for terrible fakes :-(

 

At the very least, delete all your cookies that have eBay in them:



If you do this, most of those eBay ads will disappear.

My first suggestion is to compare this coin to others of the same type. You can use ACSEARCH or CNG's research option to find them. You'll see that non-tooled coins do not exhibit the sharp edges on the devices and legends that this coin exhibits. Normal circulation wear simply does not leave sharp edges -- all edges will be smoothed (rounded) to some extent.

Tooling can be quite subtle and difficult to detect, but the tooling on this coin is so obvious that by doing comparison to other non-tooled coins, you can easily see the differences between untooled normal wear vs. normal wear that's been tooled to look sharper.