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Pillar of the Community
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Well It's a Tomis Mint issue. Says so on the slab. I can confirm based on the mint marks on the other Tomis mint coins. Normally I would crack it out. it's just that the obverse it a bit rough because it was struck using a very worn/rusted obverse die-- you can see how the reverse in nearly in mint-state condition. I think it would be hard to convince others that this is actually a near mint-state coin. I think I'll keep it in for now. I have always suspected that these were struck by Brutus. They were ofcourse issued by him but one day it's going to be proven that he struck them too.
(By the way, this is legitimately only the second ancient that I currently have, believe it or not. I'm going to start to build my ancients around this one.)
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03/09/2014 6:54 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5417 Posts |
Another question: In the link provided by ThisIsFun, the staters are all listed as 120-63 BC. Would these be the same as mine where mine is a more accurate date representation?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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that's a cool coin, and it's over 2000 years old!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5417 Posts |
Yup 2100-2102 Years Old :D
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Netherlands
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Very nice coin, an ancient gold coin which is certainly genuine can only being purchased at official dealers like you did.
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Valued Member
United States
53 Posts |
Beautiful coin!
Have you found it online for sale to compare your deal?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I think it would be comparable to this piece: cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=212813 Sold for $2300 USD + Buyers Fee This one is auctioning right now. Auction ends in 11 days. Currently at £1200. Estimate £1500: http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotvi...73d33e49080dThis one in Mint state currently at £2500 + Buyers fee. www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=648811&AucID=1193&Lot=754&Val=b4c04729f6ab953686548ab345f915db Those are the most expensive examples with some others goingforward $1200-:$1800 gVF to low AU. Edited by zxcccxz
03/10/2014 1:06 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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Oh wow!
That is a nice score. Do you think they sold it so low cause they didn't know what they had? Or you barter the heck out of the seller! :)
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I bartered it Down from $1450 but he only bought it a few hours back for like $700 so he didn't have time to figure out the value.
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Netherlands
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To be honest based on the photos the links with comparable examples are of an higher grade imo. You cant really compare yours with those.
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Canada
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I don't know about that. I see why you may be confused. The coin I have had been struck using very worn and rusted dies resulting in a weak, uneven strike on the Obverse. Wear wise all these coins have very similar details. Compare the reverse on my coin and the one in the link. They are very identical. Still I see why a buyer would pay a lower price for my piece over another but a serious collector would see the difference.
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Pillar of the Community
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Compare the reverse on my coin and the one in the link. Your pictures are too small and are out of focus so we can't really tell anything about the coin. I'm sure we'd all love to see it though! Can you take pictures with better focus, cropped to show just the coin? You can upload a larger picture that way (a picture in which the coin is larger). |
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oh neat, the reverse looks really good. are you going to keep it in the slab? interesting the the obverse looks the way it does on a gold coin.
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Here are the pictures. The quality still isn't close to where I'd like them to be. Also I had to have the flashlight on my phone while I took the photo because I have no lighting setup. It has blocked some of the details but I have kept as many of the details as possible. The strike is pretty good on this one. Thoughts?  Edited by zxcccxz
03/11/2014 12:06 am
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