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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3649685, member: 19463"]<a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324661" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324661" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324661</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=83511" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=83511" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=83511</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This post is hilarious. Yes, the items are fake but the details are really wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many coins with no legends. We have a term for it: anepigraphic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins with the same design incuse on the reverse are called brockage errors. I have never seen a gold anepigraphic brockage of a relative of one of the Ptolemies. The style here is wrong but I suspect it was trying to copy a coin of Berenike or another Ptolemaic queen.</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=22528" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=22528" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=22528</a></p><p>Perhaps Hera?</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=83511" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=83511" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=83511</a></p><p>There are many coins showing bare feet. There are a few where the main type is a bare foot.</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324661" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324661" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324661</a></p><p>We once had a member here who showed his bronze on Coin Talk but he was kicked off the board so we can't ask him to post it. You might search and find it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea if the engraved gem is genuine or not. I do not study/collect these. There are many that look superficially like the one you show. Many have been remounted in modern mounts. I believe it is safe to say your mount is modern. I don't know about the stone.</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324661" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324661" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324661</a></p><p>'I don't know' is a common answer from people who know enough to know they don't know everything. I don't collect gold, jewlery, Ptolemaic Queens or intaglio gems. Believe whomever you wish.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3649685, member: 19463"][URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324661[/URL] [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=83511[/URL] This post is hilarious. Yes, the items are fake but the details are really wrong. There are many coins with no legends. We have a term for it: anepigraphic. Coins with the same design incuse on the reverse are called brockage errors. I have never seen a gold anepigraphic brockage of a relative of one of the Ptolemies. The style here is wrong but I suspect it was trying to copy a coin of Berenike or another Ptolemaic queen. [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=22528[/URL] Perhaps Hera? [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=83511[/URL] There are many coins showing bare feet. There are a few where the main type is a bare foot. [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324661[/URL] We once had a member here who showed his bronze on Coin Talk but he was kicked off the board so we can't ask him to post it. You might search and find it. I have no idea if the engraved gem is genuine or not. I do not study/collect these. There are many that look superficially like the one you show. Many have been remounted in modern mounts. I believe it is safe to say your mount is modern. I don't know about the stone. [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=324661[/URL] 'I don't know' is a common answer from people who know enough to know they don't know everything. I don't collect gold, jewlery, Ptolemaic Queens or intaglio gems. Believe whomever you wish.[/QUOTE]
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