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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3933117, member: 76194"][USER=108976]@AdamB[/USER] I am extremely worried for you. You sure have tastes and eyes for coins that are particularly highly faked. Ouch.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately you bought from a reliable source this time, and it looks good. Here's mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1036563[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins were minted for an absurdly long time, which is why they are so plentiful and cheap, and a target for forgers too. I always find it hard to date them, except that it is generally true that the cruder the style the younger it is. By the time the Greeks were fighting for survival against the Romans the styling became rather crude as the need for coinage for the war skyrocketed. Mine is around 140 BC and the crudeness is obvious when compared to earlier issues which are of a desperately pretty and refined style.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3933117, member: 76194"][USER=108976]@AdamB[/USER] I am extremely worried for you. You sure have tastes and eyes for coins that are particularly highly faked. Ouch. Fortunately you bought from a reliable source this time, and it looks good. Here's mine. [ATTACH=full]1036563[/ATTACH] These coins were minted for an absurdly long time, which is why they are so plentiful and cheap, and a target for forgers too. I always find it hard to date them, except that it is generally true that the cruder the style the younger it is. By the time the Greeks were fighting for survival against the Romans the styling became rather crude as the need for coinage for the war skyrocketed. Mine is around 140 BC and the crudeness is obvious when compared to earlier issues which are of a desperately pretty and refined style.[/QUOTE]
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