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4 Ancient Coins Age And Value

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 Posted 05/13/2013  1:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list
The silver coin is from Venice one of the Doges. I see if I can find who it is. The others are all Roman provincial coins. When I get back home later I'll see if I can pin them down.
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 Posted 05/13/2013  4:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dwayne8625 to your friends list
another way to test for silver is putting it on a cube of ice... if it is silver it will melt into the ice because silver remains a constant temp.
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 Posted 05/13/2013  5:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list
There isn't enough of the legend visible to say who it might be, but here is an interesting website that might help you learn about the coin type. http://www.ancientresource.com/lots...enetian.html

The coin appears to be real IMO.
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 Posted 05/16/2013  1:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Grunge to your friends list
Yes Echizento, the coins are real, I was just told that they are gold again!(tested with some toolkit). I don't have the coins near me so I can't measure the weight. but for the first image I can tell the weight was above 20 grams, I searched a lot but was unable to find more info.
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Yes Echizento, the coins are real, I was just told that they are gold again!(tested with some toolkit). I don't have the coins near me so I can't measure the weight. but for the first image I can tell the weight was above 20 grams, I searched a lot but was unable to find more info.


There is little question as to their authenticity. They look fine. However, they are most certainly NOT gold. Gold is an extremely stable element and really only reacts to one thing. That is a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid (Aqua Regia) therefore there would not be any "Patina" on a gold coin like you see in the pictures here. If these were gold coins, they would look like this:

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The only coin I can't vouch for is the silver Byzantine. The first three are Roman era Greek provincial bronze/brass (orichalcum) coins most likely quite common and in rough shape. probably worth about 10 dollars each.

If the silver byzantine is authentic is is worth substantially more.
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 Posted 05/16/2013  2:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list
I did say the silver one was from Venice and the others were Roman Provincials. There are no gold coins there.
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Echizento, the quote was from the OP grunge. Not you. Grunge was implying they were gold.
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I am with Chrsmat
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Thanks Joseph, I miss understood the comment. I'll edit my last comment.
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The silver coin is from Venice and badly clipped. The only significant difference between issues of Venice over hundreds of years is not the design, which remains constant, but the name of the ruling Doge, which is around the edge. When that is clipped and therefore almost illegible, the value of the coin is very much reduced, and Venetian coins are not that valuable to begin with.
As with everything under the sun, there is a relevant website:

http://www.venetiancoins.com/

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 Posted 05/21/2013  4:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Grunge to your friends list
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What about other three coin age story something anything, I want to break through he says GOLD , cause gold sellers told him it was gold maybe 20% gold 40% --- and we know that gold ads to value but numismatic history and story gives more value than the gold in it.
Thank you.
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There is NO gold in the three roman provincial coins. Not 40%, not 20% but none. Do not buy these thinking there is any gold in them. There is NO gold .

They are three rather poor quality roman provincial of what looks like Gordian and Gordian and Tranquillina - as someone said £10 each for approx value.
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I give up, this coins are not listed anywhere or if they where listed somewhere I have no time to search for them. I looked at all gordian coins on wildwinds but I did not find a close up match, as I don't have coins in my hands I can't precisely search. I will tell him to keep them.
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