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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3946355, member: 85693&quot;]This was indeed a better-than-average post on a fake ancient, and I found it most informative (thank you, Barry Murphy).&nbsp; Fakes deserve as much attention and care as real coins, if only to be able to cull them from the herd of genuine coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>The OP is the kind of coin I never bid on, for 2 reasons:&nbsp; small silver Greek coins like this scare me, and have since the Black Sea Hoard came out in the 1980s when I was just starting to collect.&nbsp; World Coin News had several articles on these, and to this day I cannot tell the difference between the real ones and the fakes - Ed Snible studies these, a thread to which is here:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/fake-identification-toolkit.327472/#post-3243646" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/fake-identification-toolkit.327472/#post-3243646">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/fake-identification-toolkit.327472/#post-3243646</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As for eBay, I avoid Eastern Europe as well - Bulgaria, etc.&nbsp; This might be unfair, but there are a ton of fakes listed by sellers from this area.&nbsp; A lurid green sestertius of Caligula or Titus from Albania is best to avoid, I think.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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