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New Member
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The Vilnius area may not have hordes of these coins as it was not part of battle area. The area between Riga and Narva was where the fighting and of course coin hiding took place. Here is a link to an article about large Russian coin horde found 3 years ago in Narva dating from the period of the Livonian War. [url]http://www.minelab.com/consumer/success-stories/discovery-of-a-huge-coin-hoard-1[url]
As to the price of these coins, they appear to be in better condition than many of the excavated coins that I have seen. If your income is denominated in GBP (no exchange costs) and you live in the UK (no international postage), I would say the price as it is now is quite fair. Even if you had to pay a little more, that would be so much cheaper than taking a metal detector horde finding expedition to Estonia or Latvia.
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Valued Member
Austria
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i don´t think they are genuine - there are a lot of modern fakes on the way this time.
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New Member
 United Kingdom
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I hardly ever see fakes on ebay , I'm shocked |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I think they are genuine - but I'm not really sure what to make of the seller. I've seen some of his auctions and there is no way some of the coins have been found "near the thames". While these look OK some of his other coins look a bit off - on saying that there have been some very rare tokens with what looks like water corrosion type damage.
I'm not going to buy anything of his until I get a better feel for what is going on. It is quite likely, as previously said, that he is selling suff for others - maybe just too lazy to change the listing info - maybe he thinks it might be a good selling feature (though most would be unfazed by that).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's just a fact of life that old silver pulled out of the Thames just sounds more appealing than old silver pulled out of the River Daugava.
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New Member
United Kingdom
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I mean , how many coins are in the Thames anyway
he doesn't even say "in the Thames " he says NEAR the Thames that's probilly in his house which is neer the Thames
Unless one day he found 200 coins and selling them gradually
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New Member
United Kingdom
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Sold for £31 or $50 Would anyone pay this?  |
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United Kingdom
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I mean , how many coins are in the Thames anyway ALLOT, trust me. It's not that unusual to find small hoards of coins which would of once been money pouches accidentally dropped into the river. I've never walked a stretch of the foreshore without finding at least one coin of some sort; mainly old pennies, H'pennies etc. You name an object and there will be one in the Thames; I heard from my Archeological society that there's even a German V2 rocket at the bottom of the Thames! Edited by Coinage123
01/10/2013 8:08 pm
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Valued Member
Lithuania
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these were genuine Lithuanian coins - half-groats of Sigismund the Old 1512,1513,1510, half-groat of Sigismund August 1556 and undated half-groat of Alexander Jagiellon(last years of 15 century). Their mintage was in millions, so the coins arent expensive - probably 10 usd each....
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geraltttt82
I'm here. gdrs is my nick in numista :)
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well @giedrius/gdrs, I'm glad that you are here on CCF--as you may know we see old Polish/Latvian/Lithuanian coins pretty often here.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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