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Fake Coins and Notorious Fake Sellers / Re: Fake Akragas?

« Last post by Din X on Today at 03:17:28 am »

Did I miss something?
Why exactly is this condemned?

Ross G.

I always have problems to understand you, because you ask questions which have been already answered and others including me seem to understand the answers.

While I was writing Altamura has already answered, but I do not want to delete so maybe some points written by Altamura will be now repeated in my post.


What we have is fake of a tetradrachm with artificial patina, this type does not exist in bronze!
The coin is vey likely a cast fake, too.

There are bronze coins of Akragas with crab and eagle but they do not have the double spiral on the reverse and more important no legend on the obverse (you can see some letter on the obverse).

What speaks against authenticity:

artificial patina, wrong metal, type doesn´t exist in bronze only in Silver as tetradrachm

What speaks for authenticity

NOOOOOOTHING NOOTHING, bad tourist fake

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Forum numizmatyki antycznej po polsku / Re: Frustracja

« Last post by DzikiZdeb on Today at 03:09:57 am »

Wygląda na to, że w tym wypadku opłaciło się pomarudzić :-)

Niech Pan da znać, jak się sprawa dalej potoczy.

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Fake Coins and Notorious Fake Sellers / Re: Fake Akragas?

« Last post by Altamura on Today at 03:02:48 am »

... Why exactly is this condemned? ...

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... This type seems to exist only in silver as tetradrachm. ...

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... Characteristic for your coin are the spirals below the crab. But this is something you only have on silver coins from Akragas  . ...

Regards

Altamura

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Roman Coins Discussion Forum / Re: All known coins of Maximus of Hispania

« Last post by Teutoburgium on Today at 02:10:49 am »

Hello,

The die match with already known specimens is convincing method for attribution of new, or less preserved coins.
In respect to the definitive number of specimens, this is tricky question, due to the fact that the new material is coming up on the market or in publications. Some of the pieces given in catalogues might be wrongly attributed, which obscures their existence.

Regards,
Teutoburgium

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Fake Coins and Notorious Fake Sellers / Re: Fake Akragas?

« Last post by glebe on Today at 02:02:22 am »

Did I miss something?
Why exactly is this condemned?

Ross G.

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Ancient Coin Forum / Re: Meepzorp's coin website

« Last post by Meepzorp on Yesterday at 10:43:20 pm »

Hi folks,

Today, I added 3 coins to my following website page:

Roman Provincial, Phrygia, Hierapolis, Part 1 (last 3 coins):

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/meepzorp/rp_phrygia_hier_pt01.htm

I also added 2 medals to my following website page:

Medals, Italy, Genoa, Part 4:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/meepzorp/medalitl_genoa_pt04.htm

These are new arrivals. I received them within the past few months.

Meepzorp

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Coin Photography, Conservation and Storage / Re: Collector's card

« Last post by Ron C2 on Yesterday at 09:51:12 pm »

I do much the same, I wait until I have 10 or 20 coins needing flip inserts and print them all on one sheet in laser printer ink.  Cut on dotted lines. 

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The Members' Gallery / Re: Tracy’s Relatively New Gallery

« Last post by Tracy Aiello on Yesterday at 07:46:34 pm »

Courtesy of three wonderful lots right here on Forum, which I purchased from Joe, I suddenly find myself interested in medals and tokens centered around Lord Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson. This new addition to my gallery was not from Joe; that one is coming later this week.

I just added a Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society Membership Token to my burgeoning collection. Per the Royal Museums Greenwich website this is a membership token issued annually as a receipt for a subscription. The date at 6h is the date of issue, which would make sense given that it is an annual membership token. Besides, I’ve seen other examples with different dates. I assume that the № in the left field was for inscribing one’s membership number, but I have no evidence of that.

I hope that you enjoy: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=187095

Tracy

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Seals and Tesserae / Identification of Byzantine lead seal?

« Last post by djmacdo on Yesterday at 07:06:57 pm »

I know nothing of lead seals, but a friend has asked if I can find out anything about this:

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Celtic, Barbaric & Tribal Imitative Coins Discussion Forum / Re: Beautiful nummo of Hilderic

« Last post by antvwala on Yesterday at 05:39:03 pm »

Gladly, but I don't know how to do it...