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Geta Denarius, Authentic Or Not?
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Old Post Posted 05/23/2023  11:19 am
Sap:

This one seems to have the same lips just less worn.

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4874176


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Geta Denarius, Authentic Or Not?
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Old Post Posted 05/18/2023  11:24 am
Hello:

You cut the photo out of the background and I think that remaining background is some sort of a wooden table. I say that as others might think that is bronze around the coin, but it is just an artifact of your photo technique. I downloaded the coin, blew it up, and the coin is ancient not to worry, in my opinion.
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Need Help Iding Unidentified Greek Bronze
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Old Post Posted 05/18/2023  09:59 am
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8721024

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Anyone Know What This Is?
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Old Post Posted 05/12/2023  10:31 am
Kushanshah;

OK so the bronze one sees in front or the bust to the right for example means this is an extremely thin cast copper coin that was plated silver chemically perhaps as Victor mentions could create such a thing?
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Anyone Know What This Is?
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Old Post Posted 05/11/2023  9:11 pm
Victor:

I understand. Can you look at this color comparison? That is what is confusing me. Overcleaned but to this color seems odd to me. I see bronze under it, but a very thin coin with a thin silver plate is what it looked like to me. But why, if that is so?

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Anyone Know What This Is?
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Old Post Posted 05/11/2023  8:47 pm
17 mm, 1.27 grams. Found in a collectors estate. No idea actually. I am not going to say siliqua, I just post it here and see what you folks think.




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Interesting Read This (Anglo-Saxon Coins: Illegally Held Hoard Rewrites English History)
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Old Post Posted 05/07/2023  12:14 pm
Well the Judge saying this:

--->"Judge James Adkin said their offending was aggravated by their plan to sell the coins abroad, saying: "Had they left this country, they would have been likely to be lost to this nation for ever.""<---

Good thing the UK does not have any treasures that are lost to other countries in their museums and returned them all. Has Judge James Adkin ever written a letter to the British Museum to return the Rosetta Stone to Egypt?
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Provincial ? Coin To Identify
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Old Post Posted 04/28/2023  3:22 pm
Some kind of Cilicia etc. Just have to match the emperors head and Athena's helmet style. This type below perhaps... Also match coin size.

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5810342
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=273119
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Ancient Greek Coin To Identify
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Old Post Posted 04/25/2023  8:23 pm
Micha:

Bob L and I end our semesters soon. I'd love to work on this one this summer so if you get bored, might you consider posting some odd angle photos of the coin? Love to try some photo shop work on the images and try to pull things out. Only if you have the time of course.
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Ancient Greek Coin To Identify
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Old Post Posted 04/23/2023  3:15 pm
I still think you should consider the Brettii (Bruttium) They have coins with a large Π and HΓINΩN and straight down letters like this: Just consider it and see below:

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8814388

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7658404

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7775152
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Ancient Greek Coin To Identify
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Old Post Posted 04/23/2023  06:23 am
This is not correct below, but some of the Brettii have letters going down and similar flans. Maybe some area close to them etc.

https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/gre...ettii/t.html
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Ancient Greek Coin To Identify
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Old Post Posted 04/22/2023  08:39 am
Micha:

OK, but your Mamertini don't really have letters that go straight down, they curve mostly. So if the Seleukids are out and you throw out the Omphalos, also be willing to throw out the Π that is probably limiting options and start a search for cities that do have letters that go straight down and are that size. There are really not that many cities that have letters going straight.
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Ancient Greek Coin To Identify
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Old Post Posted 04/21/2023  1:26 pm
Well you have to think you are looking at Apollo leaning on a bow sitting on an omphalos, and your letters go straight down behind plus you have dotted borders. Puts me in the Seleukid Kingdom. Now do you see the full omphalos? No, but that gap between when a bow usually is and that omphalos is there clear enough, the tilted down head. That is enough for me to stop thinking about if I can enhance the omphalos etc. I would not be too married to the Π either, there are many combinations of letters and things that can make that or a monogram. A "T" that fades away on the top left, etc. You got a size and a Seleukid bronze to search that may just not be on acsearch and move to the bust and who it resembles perhaps. (If anything I said is correct of course.)
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Roman Coin To Identify: Diameter 21x22mm, Weight 4.4g, Bronze, Similar With A Valentinian II
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Old Post Posted 04/16/2023  6:42 pm
I think you are correct as the "TNIAN" letter shapes on your coin match pretty well for direction, even if you can't read the full letters.
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I'd Avoid This Ebay Seller
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Old Post Posted 04/15/2023  08:50 am
Livingwater:

Check your mail and see all the free furnace inspections from companies who will always find something wrong and charge you for things for a furnace that an honest HVAC person would call just fine but they still somehow get to advertise. Or all the calls from people saying they sell cable or have a business rebate or countless other things AT@T and the others can't seem to stop. And sure it would be nice if eBay worked to stop sellers from places like Serbia who are selling fake things, but in San Jose California where the eBay home office is located they closed recently the CVS as they can't stop crime at all and they just had to go. Things will only get worse and worse across the board it seems. Think of it this way: 30 years ago or 20 years ago you lived a normal life. Now we say we get a ton of "spam" calls. But they are not "spam" or whatever that even means. Your phone, all day long, in our modern world, has criminals directly calling you. We have accepted criminals will call us all day and all we wish to do is "block" them, we don't even say anymore we want that stopped at the source. Look at what we have come to accept in this modern world sadly.
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Needed Help With Identification
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Old Post Posted 04/12/2023  08:23 am
You know, it looks like the "MEKU" and the "NP75" may never have been on this one. The whole set sold on eBay recently for $40 for the 10 of them and this one seems to be missing the marks even on that set.



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Julius Caesar Elephant 49Bc
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Old Post Posted 04/10/2023  08:17 am
Given that the coin shows no hint of encrustation or dirt on the silver, if real, it has been in collections for a long time. So the person can easily tell you where they got it from and you can trace it back to the auction house etc. If they don't tell you, since the coin is sought after but not rare, it might be some eastern European find and they don't want to say that etc. Everyone offering one of these knows exactly where they go it.
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Roman Imperial Bronze Coin
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Old Post Posted 04/02/2023  5:47 pm
The people are asking for a side view as your letters look blurred and thus in this case cast and not struck. Just so you know.
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Eid Mar Coin Seller Arrested
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Old Post Posted 04/02/2023  05:10 am
Kushanshah;

In my opinion, as this is one of only three known if real, the coin collecting universe will need more then the Manhattan DA knowing exactly where the coin exactly came from in Greece for people to accept it is real. They have to release how. Italo Vecchi is an older gentleman as witnessed by his photo below. Looking him up he has quite an influence in the coin collecting universe and had a good name. So unless he found this in his backyard himself and that is published as where the coin came from other people or another person are involved and that exact find needs to be posted for the world to see. The Manhattan DA might be satisfied, but for the next series of hundreds of years that coin will be suspect unless someone can say where it was found recently. Older coins that have been in collections for hundreds of years, no, but this one is too important for the Manhattan DA to be footnoted on the museum in Greece as the reason it is real. That is just my opinion and maybe nothing leaks out of the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office and we will never know what he exactly knows. But it needs to be published for this coin to not forever have an asterisk. Even looted art from Germany in World War Two eventually we find out how they got the pieces. And that is way before the internet and the pedigree is known. Think about it this way, a man, Vecchi, will forever be the only published person who starts the chain of pedigree in the Greek Museum text and that will also have to say how he ended up on the Manhattan DA docket in court for not telling the truth. That won't sit with anyone in 200 years in my opinion.

https://www.romanumismatics.com/ima...o-Vecchi.png
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Eid Mar Coin Seller Arrested
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Old Post Posted 04/01/2023  4:59 pm
Still , Greece gets the coin back based on : "----the gold coin surfaced on the international art market in 2016, in Munich, Germany, with no provenance----...". Someone must exactly know the way this coin got to the German Art Market. If that never comes out, why? You are always going to assume it is fake unless they say exactly who found the coin and how it got to Germany, which they must completely know if they gave it back to Greece right?
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