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Author Topic: Suspect seller from Cyprus offering Pescennius Niger, Macrinus etc  (Read 810 times)

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Offline Optimo Principi

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Stumbled across a seller from Cyprus offering this Pescennius Niger and many other suspect coins, none marked as reproductions.

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Re: Suspect seller from Cyprus offering Pescennius Niger, Macrinus etc
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2016, 03:57:47 pm »
The coins he is offering and the red background look familiar.

No completed sales for a couple of months. Maybe the same seller that changed his name and waited one month for the "changed named" status to disappear before getting back to the business of selling fakes. I'd hazard a guess that most prolific fake sellers are aware that they have been added to the NFSL

EDIT: I have since looked at die matches in the fake reports. The coin pictured below from the reports was sold by "machairidis14" (no longer a registered ebay user), a seller from Greece already on the NFSL. The new seller in question has listings that use the same background. (same texture as well). Greece/Cyprus, purplish textured backgrounds...coincidence? I am willing to bet it is the same person or entity.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pos=-16483

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Re: Suspect seller from Cyprus offering Pescennius Niger, Macrinus etc
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2016, 10:46:50 pm »
When I got my bunch they were said to be Slavei's.  The Pescennius is 2nd row right.  Recently we are seeing more with toning and dirt added.  All are struck from the same alloy and same fabric making this wholly unlike a genuine Pescennius. 


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Re: Suspect seller from Cyprus offering Pescennius Niger, Macrinus etc
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2016, 07:41:40 am »
Fake coin reports as appropriate please.

NSFL nomination please.
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Re: Suspect seller from Cyprus offering Pescennius Niger, Macrinus etc
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2017, 07:18:51 am »
Thanks Martin.
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