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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4808060, member: 85693&quot;]Sometimes when I buy coins off eBay, the seller sends the original purchase paperwork, which is nice. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yesterday I got a batch of three in the mail with paperwork from &quot;Ancient Auction House&quot; (cardboard flips dated 2006).&nbsp; When I was searching for information, I found this thread posted by RC a while back.&nbsp; So I thought I&#039;d bring it back up. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Oh no, Bulgaria!&quot; I told myself after a little research.&nbsp; But it seems this Genov was a reliable seller, according to other references to him I found online. </p><p><br /></p><p>But still, my first &quot;Black Sea Hoard&quot; coin, and that makes me a bit suspicious.&nbsp; Back in 1987 when I first collected ancients, the Black Sea Hoard of fakes was all over <i>World Coin News</i> (along with ads selling them, I seem to recall).&nbsp; Ever since then I avoided these, because I could never tell the fakes from the real. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now I have one.&nbsp; One of the things going for it, paradoxically, is how terribly off-center the obverse is - I&#039;d think the forgers would call a &quot;do over&quot; on one this bad. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Gordian III and the Philip II Apollo/horseman look good to me - I have several of each type, and nothing screamed &quot;fake&quot; to me.&nbsp; But I do not know about the Mesembria diobol.&nbsp; Feel free to give me the bad news...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1166965[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1166966[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1166967[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Mesembria, Thrace&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Diobol</b></p><p><b>(c. 450-350 B.C.)</b></p><p>Crested Corinthian helmet facing / M-E-T-A in four quarters of a wheel, surrounded by border of radiating lines</p><p>SNG BM 268 ff.; SNG Cop 653; Sear GCV I 1673.</p><p>(1.27 grams / 11 x 9 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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