Advice Selling Gold Stater

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We would be happy to look at your ancients coins. We can give you our opinions as to weather they are real or not. There are many auction houses that sell ancient coins. Heritage Auctions is one of the best.

Just keep in mind that per forum rules you are not allowed to sell your coins here until you meet the required posts and time as a member.

Coins 2 and 4 seem to be the same, have you posted it twice? Were they bought in those mounts?

I agree with echizento.
It must be borne in mind that these coins have been heavily faked, over many decades, and there are some VERY dangerous fakes about, especially the stater of Philip 11.

Pity about your time frame. You really should take your time to sell these, if they prove to be genuine.
These coins will require authentication before you decide to sell them. A leading auction house in New York should be able provide a highly regarded professional opinion. That's where the best professional experts on these coins are to be found.

I would never be tempted to lodge a bid on any significantly valuable coin on ebay, unless I knew of the reputation of the seller, and in the case of these coins, that reputation would have to be of the highest order. A mere check on feedback would simply not be good enough for me.

Evidence left behind from mounting will detract from their value.

Thanks for the feedback. I haven't had the coins officially authenticated. We did take them to a large, registered coin dealer a couple of years ago. The next day they said they weren't interested in this category of coin (more focused on US coins) but made no mention of counterfeiting. But I will head down to Boston next week to get them seem.
This issue of casting bubbles is interesting. As you can see from the very detailed photo of the state (Not corrected for color, etc.) it has a fair amount of wear marks. Just for fun (?!) I went to vcoins and selected a couple of photos of gold staters. One is listed for $50,000, the highly worn piece for $880. Both have depressions. Assuming at least one of these is genuine how do you distinguish a casting bubble from a pressure mark on soft gold? Finally I'm attaching the missing obverse photos of the gulden.
I'll let you know what I find out!

They are more evident on the reverse, if you can take a large picture of it. They appear as tiny depressed and raised details in the metal. If this coin turns out to be real, whoever had it mounted in this fashion has caused damage to the coin.