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Tiberius III follis : Authentic or not ??
« on: June 20, 2013, 03:05:09 pm »
I bought today this coin, do you think it's an authentic ??,

It's SBCV 1395, weight 3,54 g

Thanks for your help

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Re: Tiberius III follis : Authentic or not ??
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2013, 01:04:47 am »
I do not see anything wrong.
Nice and rare coin.

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Re: Tiberius III follis : Authentic or not ??
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2013, 05:02:12 am »
I agree.  oOthings jumps out as suspicious.  Unless you were concerned about something in particular?

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Re: Tiberius III follis : Authentic or not ??
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2013, 12:50:01 pm »
hello,

For me, it look like forgery coin !
Border too regular, blur on details, and finaly the style look strange ?

But perhaps I do a mistake ...

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Re: Tiberius III follis : Authentic or not ??
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2013, 02:04:07 pm »
Looks authentic and very nice.
Please compare:

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Catalogue of the Late Byzantine Coins

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Re: Tiberius III follis : Authentic or not ??
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2013, 04:37:06 am »
hello,
For me, it look like forgery coin !
Border too regular, blur on details, and finaly the style look strange ?

If you did not know, and in fact thought it was a forgery, then why did you buy it?
Curious!

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Re: Tiberius III follis : Authentic or not ??
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2013, 04:50:29 am »
because  on a french forum, we believe that this coins is questionable.
In addition,
- the seller is private auction
- He already has bad evaluations for sales of fake currency

For me, the style of writing is different of coins in the same period. But most of the coins that sells this seller seems covered with fake patina and this can distort the view.

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Re: Tiberius III follis : Authentic or not ??
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2013, 06:17:21 am »
hello,
For me, it look like forgery coin !
Border too regular, blur on details, and finaly the style look strange ?

If you did not know, and in fact thought it was a forgery, then why did you buy it?
Curious!

Walter

Yes curious I am !  ::)

I buy it because I don't be suspicous on the first look, and as sometimes, before to pay, I ask some Byzantine collector to give me advice and most of them recommanded  to me not to buy it because they beleive it's a fake!

And after somes investiguation, I think this seller sold other suspicious coins, and if it is true, it's necessary do something,

that'all.



 

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