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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 3102232, member: 74222&quot;]It was this lot that caused me to ask the question:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.biddr.ch/auctions/ams/browse?a=291&amp;c=4574&amp;l=267512" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.biddr.ch/auctions/ams/browse?a=291&amp;c=4574&amp;l=267512" rel="nofollow">https://www.biddr.ch/auctions/ams/browse?a=291&amp;c=4574&amp;l=267512</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Firstly, this is not Justinian, but Justin II. But that is not the problem, as a tremissis of Justinian and Justin II has the same value.</p><p><br /></p><p>The real problem was that this coin was not minted in Constantinople as the seller has listed it. It was minted in Ravenna. Ravenna-gold are 5x or 10x more expensive than Constantinople-gold. Any byzantine-collectors know it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gold coins minted in Constantinople and Ravenna have the same portrait so an untrained eye will not see a difference. But a Byzantine-collector would easily detect it by seeing the details. Ravenna Gold has heavy annular border at the flan, and also the design is like it has been stuck by a bee. Difficult to explain with words, but the point is that a trained eye can easily distinguish golds of Ravenna from Constantinople.</p><p><br /></p><p>I “lost” the bid as I was not so keen on that. But 360 Euro plus fee is still a bargain for a Tremissis of Ravenna. If I was a coin-dealer I would bid higher in order to make profit. But that was not my intention.</p><p><br /></p><p>So IF I had won that coin, and I paid, and the coin arrived to me, could the seller demand it back? – Probably not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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