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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1819664, member: 42773&quot;]Very nice acquisitions. The Seleucid certainly has enough detail to render a specific attribution. Check Wildwinds. It&#039;s a great piece, and one that I&#039;d be happy to have in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know enough about prutoh to say anything about the Judaean piece, but my understanding is that you&#039;ve got to be very careful about forgeries. I have a dealer acquaintance that travels to Israel every year to stock his store, and he claims a huge number of these coins are fake. You wouldn&#039;t think such scrappy little coins would be counterfeited, but there&#039;s an enormous market for them among non-collectors because of their Biblical association, ie., Jesus&#039; story of the widow&#039;s mite.</p><p><br /></p><p>Evidently, many of these coins are reproduced <i>en masse </i>as tourist mementos, and they are made so well that it&#039;s difficult to discern an authentic piece from a fake. My friend won&#039;t buy any unless he can trace their provenance to a specific hoard. Now whether this is all true or just part of his sales schtick is another question...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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