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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;randygeki, post: 1357182, member: 13719&quot;]There&#039;s allot of reasons modern coins might show up in a lot of Roman coins. Coins can &quot;migrate&quot; in the soil, or maybe&nbsp; the excavator pooled everything he found into one group, or they got mixed in (purposely or accidentally&nbsp; ) between from being dug to being sold to the dealer to being sold on ebay.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think its uncommon for dealers to mix up different groups, this can give you a good variety of coins and the dealer can get rid of&nbsp; culls and slugs (crappy coins) at the same time. If a modern coin is caked in dirt than, then its hard to tell the difference between it, and one allot older. Under the right condition, modern coins can easily get encrusted. Someone, as a joke, gave me a handfull of pennies, from an old fountain, that looked like ancient&nbsp; coins because of the corrosion. Some places even sell uncleaned coin from the 17th-20th century. Some sellers have sold a mixture of real and fake ancients Weather they did this accidentally or purposely, I can&#039;t say.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can you post pics or scans of your coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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