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New Member
United States
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I bought a few lots of ancient Roman coins on ebay and I wanted to know your guys's opinions on them. When they got here, I looked for signs of seamed edges like fakes usually have, and sharp lettering and details like real ones have. Also, one lot of coins I bought had little patina on it. What do you guys think of coins like that as being real or not? Any help is strongly appreciated, thank you.  Here are the ebay ID's: 321195317939321192085147321192093130310725004277 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hello Carlos, I think I will just sit back and read the responses on this thread. Right or wrong, I have always thought that the possibility of acquiring counterfeit ancient coins is more likely compared to collecting more contemporary(minted later that 1800) coins. Unless someone could convince me otherwise I have always thought that since ancient mints most likely lacked stringent quality control procedures, just about any size or type of variation could have been created during the minting process. Hence, my thoughts lead me to believe that just about any variation of a particular ancient coin could be incorrectly judged as genuine. For these reasons I have strayed away from ancient coins but could be persuaded otherwise to collect them if someone could point me to a reliable web site specializing in the art of detecting counterfeit ancient coins etc... Oh, by the way  on your first post. mdpmedia |
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 Australia
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Well, all four lots raise no red flags for me, although the first three are undercleaned and the last one looks overcleaned.
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
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Yes, you did. All real. Casa_di_roma is very reputable and you've bought some good coins. a Gallienus Centaur from the zoo series, a 5 finger hand of god on a Constantine Postumus, several nice provincials (snakes, Nicaea, whatever top left is on the overcleaned lot).
I see some nice things coming out of the lot without the reverses pictured. the RESTITVTOR REI- is not the commonest of designs and you've got a nice one there. Hopefully its Jovian on the other side and not bleedin' Valentinian I.
So, you'll be cleaning them yourself? Before touching them, run it by us and we'll help you out - I hate seeing roman coins be ruined via dippings in Cillit Bang and the likes!
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
946 Posts |
Different sellers. First three are genuine Late Roman Bronzes, as are the fourth Lot, though overcleaned.
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United States
23731 Posts |
to the community As the other have said they are all real and are from the late Roman era. The first three lots are uncleaned but from what I can see you will have some nice coins once they are cleaned. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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In fact, you can use the 4th Lot as an example of how not to clean coins, unless you would like the others to look like that...which is highly undesirable.
Those others ought to clean up well enough by a soak in distilled water.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think you did well. Just the type of lots I'd like to see here on B/S/T.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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and...  the first three are nice uncleaned coins! |
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Posted 09/12/2013 12:36 am
