Very Nice Allectus Silver?

thankyou everybody for your input on this coin judging by the comments made it is unfortunately for me and possibly for the rest of the numastic world going to be some time before this coin resurfaces after being in hiding for two thousand years already,hidden away in some private collection or possibly because of its potential rarity still with the dealer who bought it ,however the word that came down on the grapevine to me was that he realised a price of £13,000 for it my first suspicions of the mistake I actually made first came to light as I was going through my picture files on my computor and whilst admiring this particular coin I inavertantly zoomed in on it and came to the realization that what at the time I thought was the bronze comming through the silver wash was in fact the other way round tghat there was just a slight verdigreeing on the silver? and so I whent on to look for a silver example and came to where we are at presently for my part I'm sorry I dident give it the attention it deserved,i never wieghed it ,it was the one that got away, in short if the figure above IS to be believed I've been robbed and a lesson learnt only thing that remains that I can take with me is, if it is silver well...I FOUND IT! the first example? thankyou kindest regards Mark.

I DO NOT think you have been robbed.
If the coin has the potential to be worth a great amount of money, any experienced collector worth his salt would have to oblidge himself by doing due diligence by proving it's authenticity as a good qulaity silver antoninianus of Allectus.
If that coin is of good quality silver, it still in my mind, needs to be confirmed as genuine.

I would not commit myself to the purchase of it unless it is.

I really don't think this is the 'one that got away'.

Or to put it another way, if that coin is an ant. of very good silver, the new owner has had to part with thirteen thousand pounds to obtain it. You didn't.

On the other hand, thirteen thousand pounds is a heck of a lot of money to be paid for a genuine Allectus antoninianus that is nicely silvered and in top condition, that otherwise has a bronze core. It's now their risk, not yours.

sel 691 I find your comment to have a rather aggressive quality but with some merit as to my dillagence I have made already quite clearly I failed in that regard as to authenticity I found it in context as stipulated in an area that had given up numerous roman. so that as the finder is in no doubt un less your now questioning my sincerity? as to being robbed I feel somwhat justified ,i received £100 pounds for the item and whilst excepting he must make a profit their must be a degree of fairness if not then only unfairness because he has a greater understanding of what I had surley is no reason or justification to take advantage to that degree greed my friend is the very curruption of all that is good in life I found it metal detecting and I started doing it purley for the interest in history the personal involvement in finding it not for finacial gain formost as you may think ,id dealt with this man before and was nothing other than courtiouse toward him and was in the know that anything that was displayed in front of him was hard earnt out in the field. he made the purchase on knowledge obtained over 30 or more years if your telling me because he put the time in hes intitled to notshare that information which is so readily given on this site and proceed to dupe sombody to that degree well my friend I'm afraid you are in tune with all thats wrong in this world you might say that because the bankers have the knowhow in the fiscall comunity ,they have ernt the right to be paid the bonuses they receive regardless of the greed and corruption that has brought the crises in the financial world whilst the people being hurt as a result all over western world would be in agreement theyve taken advantage of being in a privaliged position.

The feeling of being 'robbed' is natural but I wonder if the buyer really intended to be a 'thief'. I have gone to flea markets and seen things which I suspected were valuable and asked the owner "What do you need for this" ? The fact that I later sold the item for $500 is really less important than the fact that I didn't in anyway "hoodwink" the owner. If this 'shark' pretended to offer friendly advice and in response to you said something akin too "Naaa nothing special" then made an insulting offer when he new full well it was worth a thousand times more ..... well that would be different ! I have one Allectus and I have collected ancients for over 35 years. I don't know that much about them. If you had offered it to me for $500 I no doubt would have 'admired' it and moved on. I would have been a fool but a fool with $500 still in pocket to buy coins with. I suspect that there may be some of both involved here. The new owner probably was as astounded by his 'Windfall' as you are upset by your hasty mistake. Personally if I found some ancients they would be very special to me. When I was 15 I went to Greece on vacation. While walking the ruins of Corinth I kicked some dirt and noticed a stone which looked unusual ..... a marble toe. I still have it ! To me it is priceless

agian thankyou for every body who took the time to reply
what have I learned? that were all in agreement its a nice example of its type.
that its most likley to have been silver washed than a solid example
and that in future, though very remote should I find another coin of that nature I will come here first ! however the fact that some people regarded it fake or modern fantasy coin does leave me with questions for surley it must have come across as somthing albit abit special? until that time all the best Mark

If this coin were of good quality solid silver and the fact that it looks so good, it had the potential to be worth a very considerable sum of money, despite anything I may have thought about it's authenticity.

That is why, if it had been in my possession, I would have taken it to the British Museum.
In this case, a simple 'phone call and the posting of some pictures, would have been enough for the staff at the BM to invite you in with the coin. Such a piece would be of great specialist interest to British numismatics.

You were not stupid ! Hasty perhaps. Uninformed certainly. The guy who paid the record price might be just as 'stupid' as you feel. If sometime soon someone discovers a 'hoard' of similar pieces the market for them could take a turn 'south'. People have purchased similar types of rarities (Spanish Gold being one that comes to mind) only to have a sea salvage turn up thousands of the things and prices 'normalize'. You probably were happy when you got the 100. Imagine paying through the nose (15,000) and finding out later that people were selling similar for 1000 ! You could be howling about what a fool you were and how you got 'skinned' by a dealer !