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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3252087, member: 80804&quot;]Yes, sorry to say, this is all too common in situations like this - Doug is right-on (as usual) in his comments and recommendations. </p><p>I ran an antique shop with a sideline showcase of ancients for about twenty years. In that time I was shown literally hundreds of similar treasures (mainly by those hoping to sell them, of course) which had mainly been passed down from an older generation&#039;s military or tourist relations and had passed into family &quot;history&quot; as the fantastically valuable ancient coins Uncle Dudley brought back from Italy, &quot;He was in the war, see...&quot; then the velvet Crown Royal bag would be reverentially produced, the coins unwrapped from tissue paper, and once again I would have to deliver the news that virtually all those &quot;fantastic opportunity&quot; acquisitions had been garden variety scams.</p><p>In 20 years, only once did a similar scenario yield an actual, authentic ancient coin - but wow, did I get a good education in &quot;detecting&quot; tourist fakes and museum gift shop items.</p><p><img src="http://www.stoa.org/albums/Roman-Imperial/46_Cilicia_Anemurium.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Exceptional only for being authentic and in the hands of someone who knew nothing about ancient coins:</p><p>Roman Provincial, Cilicia, Anemurium,</p><p>Valerian I, 253-260 AD. Æ 27mm, 8.97g, 6h.</p><p>Obv: AV K ΠO ΛI OVAΛЄPIANON. Laureate draped and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rx ANЄMOVPIЄωN. Mummiform cultus-statue of Ephesian Artemis standing facing, holding branch and sistrum; at feet left and right, stag and dog; (ЄT B ( = yr. 2 = 254/5 AD.?)</p><p>Lindgren 798; SGI 4485; Cf. SNG Levant 513[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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