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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Valued Member
Netherlands
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I'd be wary simply due to his ebay reputation and the fact that someone reviewed him as selling fakes. |
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 United States
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If this was a real coin I wouldn't take the chance that it would only sell for a few dollars. Why is the starting bid so low? This coin if real would easily fetch over $1000. It just doesn't look right. FAKE!
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2100 Posts |
From modern dies. This one was sold stamped with the word COPY.  |
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Valued Member
Netherlands
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It's truly scary how I can't see the differences. Perhaps with a physical version in front of me, but how you guys can spot it based on pictures is magic to me.
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Pillar of the Community
 United Kingdom
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3445 Posts |
Nice paperweight !
Michael by far the easiest way to spot a 'fake' is they sometimes look like they were made yesterday !
Second 'clue' is the portrait. When you have viewed literally thousands of coins of someone you get rather familiar with the way a person is supposed to look. When the facial expression or other features are out of the normal range then it is a big red flag. In this case the nose and mouth are amiss. Add the 'odd' style lettering and it's just a "nice paperweight".
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
3098 Posts |
This seller offers some fakes, but more often heavily, heavily tooled, even reworked Roman bronzes.
Paul Bulgerin
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Also that seller uses "private listing" so he could Shill as much as he likes.
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Valued Member
Canada
242 Posts |
You guys could start a service where you advise newcomers to the hobby whether or not a coin is likely to be authentic or not based on the photos and advertisement...I know that I would use it!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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People do list coins they are considering buying on here quite a bit, although you run the risk of someone else bidding up the coin after seeing it here.
Being able to spot fakes really is a skill that you build up over lots of time and lots of looking at/handling coins. There are a few types that I can reliably pick out as genuine or fake, just due to the huge amounts of time I have spent looking at them (usually researching something I was interested in buying.)
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