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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3702384, member: 85693&quot;]Interesting, if alarming thread.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been paying a lot of attention to ancient coins for only a couple years, so my opinions are unformed and evolving.&nbsp; I did collect world crowns for many years before ancients and I think <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/plumbata.96864/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/plumbata.96864/">Plumbata</a>&#039;s comments are on target - many fake world crowns, more than there were in the &#039;80s and &#039;90s, but most of them are laughably obvious.&nbsp; The really tricky ones are usually high-end stuff I can&#039;t collect anyway. </p><p><br /></p><p>The thing I&#039;ve been noticing recently - and this is based on eBay auctions, but also some recent CT posts - are the vast quantities of ancient coin <i>lots</i> coming on the market.&nbsp; These are mostly unidentified, sometimes sold in a heap.&nbsp; My &quot;fake-dar&quot; does not go off when I see these - and I have even bought a couple.&nbsp; Is this an explosion of metal detector sales in the Levant?&nbsp; Balkan smuggling?&nbsp; A random occurrence?&nbsp; This material does not consist of high dollar, often-faked stuff (Tribute pennies, &quot;shekels&quot; etc.).&nbsp; But there is decent material in a lot of them - not just LRB Constantinian Crud.&nbsp; This mass of material could have an depressing impact on prices - even cause a crash?&nbsp; I don&#039;t know.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an example of an undescribed lot I recently got - less than $2 a coin.&nbsp; I picked it up for the countermarks (including a Claudius imitative with the DV revaluation - not as nice as the one jamesicus gifted me recently, but somewhat scarce).&nbsp; Lots of Umayyad bronze stuff I&#039;ve been having a fun, frustrating time trying to figure out, an Islamic-Byzantine imitation, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]992289[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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