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Pitting, filled cracks, field dips, edge seams, filing, soft features, lack of detail, casting sprues, ghost images...
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I have 9 coins lost in the DPD package sent by mail8 views1.ARABIA, Himyarites. Circa 1st Century BC - 1st Century AD AR Very good appearance
2.BABYLONIA, Babylon. 328-311 BC Ba’al seated holding sceptre / Lion walking .Rare
3.SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Antiochos IX Philopator (Kyzikenos). 114-95 BC. AR Drachm Rare
4.SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Trajan, 98-117. Tridrachm Athena seated left on chair. very rare
5.IONIA, Erythrai AR Drachm Circa 325-315 BC Rev: EPY / EYΘYNO very rare Start Price:100
6.Kings of Mauretania, Juba II 25 BC - AD 24 Caesarea Denarius Good Very fine 0
7.SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Demetrios II Nikator, first reign, 146-138 BC Seleukeia on the Tigris
8.SELEUKID KINGS OF SYRIA. Antiochos III ‘the Great’, 222-187 BC High relief
9.Rhodos, Rhodes AR Didrachm. Circa 305-275 BC. Head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose with bud to right
If any of them are traded, please contact me! Thank you!
Zheng JFeb 02, 2024
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hadrianus aegyptos1 views17-18 mm diameter
Reverse matches one on forgerynetwork,
https://forgerynetwork.com/asset.aspx?id=2DSWElQQVC0=.
Seller ID: elmerjosef
Observe is different thoughNicholas S2Jan 18, 2024
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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt AE26 Tourist Replica2 viewsPtolemaic Kingdom of Egypt AE26 Tourist Replica
5.949g, 25.8mm, die axis 12:00
head of Isis right
ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, head right, wings closed, cornucopia across shoulder, uncertain symbol left
Consigned to FORVM but marked replica. FORVM does not sell replicas. The style is clearly wrong. An obvious replica to a dealer or experienced collector of Vespasian coinage. Joe SermariniJan 16, 2024
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Vespasian As Replica, ROMA Reverse1 viewsVespasian As Replica, ROMA Reverse
6.003g, 28.1mm, 6:00 die Axis
IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS III, laureate head right
ROMA, Roma, helmeted, standing left, spear in left hand, Victory in extended right hand, S - C (senatus consulto) flanking across center
Consigned to FORVM but marked replica. FORVM does not sell replicas. The style is clearly wrong. An obvious replica to a dealer or experienced collector of Vespasian coinage. Joe SermariniJan 16, 2024
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Nero with Agrippina the Younger - RIC 211 views1. Similar coin sold from eBay Fakeseller demetrios7107
2. Similar coin at „Münz Zentrum Rheinlad“ as whitedraw: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4981965
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, with Iulia Agrippina (the Younger); Reign: Nero; Mint: Rome; Date: c. October - December 54 AD; Nominal: Denarius; Material: Silver; Diameter: 18.4mm; Weight: 3.51g; Reference: BMC 3; Reference: Cohen 7; Reference: RIC I (second edition) Nero 2; Obverse: Bust of Nero, bare-headed, right, bust of Agrippina the Younger, draped, hair in long plait, left, facing one another; Inscription: AGRIPP AVG DIVI CL AVD NERONIS CAES MATER; Translation: Agrippina Augusta, Divi Claudii Neronis Caesares Mater; Translation: Augusta Agrippina, mother of the divine Caesar, Claudius Nero; Reverse: Legend surrounding oak-wreath enclosing EX S C; Inscription: NERONI CLAVD DIVI F CAES AVG GERM IMP TR P; Translation: Nero Claudius Divi Filius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator Tribunicia Potestas; Translation: Nero Claudius, son of the divine, Caesar, Augustus, victor over the Germans, Imperator, tribunician power.Prieure de SionJan 13, 2024
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Pertinax, Denarius, RIC 1a4 viewsObv: IMP CAES P HELV PERTIN AVG, Laureate head right
Rev: AEQVIT AVG TR P COS II, Aequitas standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae
Ref: RIC 1a, RSC 2, BMC 15
Modern dies
Passed into trade as an ancient fouree but the match to the modern dies confirmed it to be modernmaridvnvmJan 03, 2024
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Aelia Eudocia (423-460) - WIFE OF THEODOSIUS II 402-45011 views"Dimitrovgrad studio"
AV Gold Tremissis
Constantinopel
Positive image of steel dies
Obv.: AEL EVDO CIA AVG; Pearl-diademed and draped bust right
Rev.: CONOB; Cross within wreath
Weight: 1.38g; Diameter: 16mm
Fake of RIC X Theodosius II (East) 253Prieure de SionDec 27, 2023
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