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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Napata, post: 2543734, member: 76197&quot;]Hi,</p><p><br /></p><p>Lanz Numismatik has good reputation, but I heard counterfeits seldom found their way once in a while. </p><p><br /></p><p>eBay is such a platform that facilitates getting rid of the unwanted coins as the refund period is tremendously short and evidence (the listing) gets erased after a period of 3 months (typically).</p><p><br /></p><p>I came across two Cilician obols (<a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/LANZ-Kilikien-Tarsos-Obol-4-Jhd-v-Chr-Pegasos-Griechenland-GV1774-/302024065482" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/LANZ-Kilikien-Tarsos-Obol-4-Jhd-v-Chr-Pegasos-Griechenland-GV1774-/302024065482" rel="nofollow">1</a>)(<a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/LANZ-Griechenland-Kilikien-Obol-4-Jhd-v-Chr-Pegasus-GV179-/232106940196" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/LANZ-Griechenland-Kilikien-Obol-4-Jhd-v-Chr-Pegasus-GV179-/232106940196" rel="nofollow">2</a>) that are too identical to be true. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/lbbAl5L.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/O4iEbyi.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>=====================================================</p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/jwtGcAu.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>These Cilician coins exhibiting a crowned bearded man (Great King?) at the obverse and the forepart of Pegasos at the reverse are usually tagged as R2 rarity.</p><p>This makes the whole affair suspicious. </p><p>Only three days of bidding...for such a high quality R2 coin...hmmm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, this year, a source, which I won&#039;t name, released tons of these coins. Indeed, we can see many of these Cilician coins popping at big auction house names. Yet these R2 coins were virtually absent before that source released these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perusing the blog <a href="https://numismaticfakes.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismaticfakes.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Numismaticfakes</a> has fueled a nascent paranoia in me.</p><p><br /></p><p>What do you think?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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