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johnsmiths67 New Member Iceland 2 Posts	Posted 05/13/2013 4:20 pm Hi, guys. help me Identification, evaluate these coins. some of silver. how much the price? and where do I find a buyer? * Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. * Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 05/13/2013 5:39 pm to the community The silver coins are all ancient Greek from different regions. They all appear to be real. We have some Greek coin experts here that will better help attribute them. The last coin is upside down and I was unable to edit it. From what I can tell I believe it many be a German Jeton. Report this Post to the Staff
Ben Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 4208 Posts	Posted 05/13/2013 5:48 pm None of them are egyptian but the far right is a very nice Bactrian tetradrachm. And Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 05/13/2013 9:29 pm johnsmith67: to the CCF! They look OK from the pictures presented. However, without knowing anything of their background, the ancients need investigating. Some preliminary queries: 1. Provenance needs to be established. How did they come into your possession, and do you have any history of them before that? Do you have any supporting documentation to go with them? 2. How much do they weigh? They should be examined in hand by an expert third party, for evidence regarding how they were made. This examination includes for confirming ancient manufacture. They would be examined for evidence of horn silver, and silver crystallization. Great age is needed to display this sort of deterioration. This examination would also reveal the interior of flan splits for modern or ancient striking, or for casting. Edited by sel_69l 05/13/2013 9:32 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16868 Posts	Posted 05/14/2013 12:20 am Frankly, the two on the right do not look authentic to me. The Bactrian one (far right) is very commonly faked, especially in Afghanistan, and there seems to be evidence of casting on this one. The Seleucid coin of Antiochos IV (second from right) looks very strangely damaged - I'm not sure if it's been in a fire, or if it's a poor quality cast. It should look something like this. The picsd of the two coins on the left are too small to judge authenticity properly, but if they all came from the same place, then I'd be suspicious of all of them. The German piece appears to also be a copy, this time of a gold 10 dukaten of the Austrian state of Schlick. Compare with this example. Clearly, your piece is not made of gold, and also has the remnants of casting sprues or seams around the rim. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
johnsmiths67 New Member Iceland 2 Posts	Posted 05/15/2013 12:09 pm Coins tested expert-historian and told that they were real. How much is the cost? Report this Post to the Staff
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