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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3177742, member: 96864&quot;]Not many happy personal mistakes, but plenty of happy seller mistakes. Most are incorrectly identified non-coin artifacts for which reference/price guides don&#039;t really exist thus making it easier for me to snatch great deals (trust your own eyes, not their words), but the latest post-worthy coin mistake was advertised as an &quot;Alexander The Great Silver Drachm&quot; with the description: &quot;I BELIEVE THIS TO BE A REPRODUCTION OF AND PRETENDING TO BE A FAKE OF AN ANCIENT GREEK ALEXANDER THE GREAT SILVER DRACHM COIN IN VERY FINE GRADE. MY KNOWLEDGE IS VERY LIMITED ON ANCIENT COINS. ITS WELL MADE FOR A REPRODUCTION OR FAKE AND WOULD FOOL MANY PEOPLE I WOULD GUESS. CONTEMPORARY OR MODERN FAKE? MAY EVEN CONTAIN SOME SILVER? WEIGH&#039;S 12.7 Grams And Measures 27mm In Diameter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well it looked like a perfectly authentic Tyrian shekel or Antiochus VII Tetradrachm (believe it&#039;s the latter) and won it for £20.25 shipped (about 28 bucks at the time) from the UK to USA.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]818075[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]818076[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing fancy but the price was right. Since I&#039;m not generally knowledgeable enough regarding ancients to be competitive it was a pleasant surprise. Wish it would happen more often.</p><p><br /></p><p>The latest noteworthy artifact score was actually from the New World for a change. Seller had a batch of assorted Indian artifacts and whatnot, including the prize which he called an &quot;Iron Spear Tip&quot;. Well it is actually an excellent example of an &quot;Old Copper Complex&quot; (Copper Culture) Native American spearhead from the Great Lakes region, and while hard to pinpoint age it is between 3,000-7,000 years old and hammered from pure raw native copper. 4.5 inches, 37 grams and of fine form, and while plain examples roughly equivalent to this are worth ~200.00, you can see that this piece is decorated with 2 rows of divots which makes it significantly more rare and valuable, though how much I can&#039;t say as I&#039;ve never seen another like it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]818101[/ATTACH]&nbsp;&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]818102[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Not bad at 20 bucks shipped, eh?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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