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<p>[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 8589928, member: 87809"]From the Cherronesos Coins publication that I linked above:</p><p> <a href="https://rg.ancients.info/lion/cherronesos.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rg.ancients.info/lion/cherronesos.html" rel="nofollow">https://rg.ancients.info/lion/cherronesos.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>"The seller operates out of Germany and Las Vegas using different eBay I.D.s. He appears to be from Bulgaria, and these appear from their styling to be originally engraved, pressed Bulgarian School forgeries. This scammer has operated on eBay openly for eight years, selling hundreds of fakes of ancient coins and antiquities, the same ones over and over, to many thousands of people. One of his eBay I.D.s, victoriantiquities, was canceled by eBay in Nov. 2007 but only after more than 2,400 transactions."</p><p><br /></p><p>The weight of your hemidrachm is good; maybe it is the picture, I just wonder why on the reverse, the star and the letter show almost no wear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 8589928, member: 87809"]From the Cherronesos Coins publication that I linked above: [URL]https://rg.ancients.info/lion/cherronesos.html[/URL] "The seller operates out of Germany and Las Vegas using different eBay I.D.s. He appears to be from Bulgaria, and these appear from their styling to be originally engraved, pressed Bulgarian School forgeries. This scammer has operated on eBay openly for eight years, selling hundreds of fakes of ancient coins and antiquities, the same ones over and over, to many thousands of people. One of his eBay I.D.s, victoriantiquities, was canceled by eBay in Nov. 2007 but only after more than 2,400 transactions." The weight of your hemidrachm is good; maybe it is the picture, I just wonder why on the reverse, the star and the letter show almost no wear.[/QUOTE]
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