Eid Mar Coin Seller Arrested

I wonder if the person who paid $4.2 million for this coin got any money back, as it was seized and "repatriated to the country of origin"? The article does not state anything as far as I can see.

Imagine how you would feel if you had bought it and it is now gone?

Since the actual provenance of these two very important coins is still unknown, their source must necessarily be in question.

It follows that the possibility that they are not genuine, poses a very significant unanswered question as well.

As part of the process to establish authenticity, NGC's opinion should, and the process as to how it arrived at that opinion, for these two coins must be reviewed as a matter of necessity.

Sel;

In this NGC announcement from 2020 they are very happy to have certified this coin and say there were only two known before this coin was revealed and they certified it. So many questions come up but first do they have X-Ray fluorescence for the coin as I assume the gold would have trace elements of other gold coins from the area and mint of the time. And if they did and it is fine, if this is not real was it struck on a flan from another ancient coin of gold or it's gold repurposed, that had contamination one would expect to see? They had to have done this I imagine, the scan for a coin like that. If it is real, it had to be hidden for thousands of years in one of the countries like Italy to have to create a fake pedigree so they have to actually know the real pedigree, the man who provided it for sale. Through World Wars it was never reported? So it has to be fake in my opinion thus what did the scans say I wonder?

https://www.ngccoin.uk/news/article...eaks-record/

The Eid Mar is believed to have been found more than a decade ago in an area of Greece where Brutus and his civil war ally, Gaius Cassius Longinus, were encamped with their army. Reliable sources are suggesting that photos exist of the coin in situ.

Kushanshah:

If it was found more then a decade ago in Greece, I doubt it was the old Italian man who worked with Roma to sell it who found it himself of course. So how many other people are there who knew, and how many can be also taken to court by the Greek authorities? If the people now involved give in and don't fight the charge the trail will have to be given to exactly who found this and we will all know soon enough and probably talk about it here once that hits the press.

More information
https://www.coinworld.com/news/worl...setting-coin

When I saw that name my first thought was "oh, my, the actor from 'A Night To Remember' was involved in a fraud?" but then I remember he passed away 6+ years ago!

This certainly casts a very poor light on the likelihood of the coin being real.

However, consider this: there are art forgers who are good enough to create nearly-undetectable copies of everything from the Old Masters to the Cubists and Dadaists. They use original canvases, with period-correct brushes and materials, and pigments which are chemically identical to those used in the original paintings, and paint with the same techniques and styles of the artists whom they copy. Some of these art forgeries have successfully fooled the most famous art galleries, museums, and collectors in the world.

Does it not then logically follow that eventually numismatic forgers will advance their own art to the same level, aided by modern technology and metallurgy, such that the coins they counterfeit are good enough to fool even the most highly regarded numismatic experts in the world, including those at dealers, auction houses, and TPG's?