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Ancient Horde Of Counterfiets

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 Posted 08/13/2014  09:21 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Rdwarrior to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...etector.html

Will they really be worth 400 euros each?
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If they come authenticated from that hoard, someone might pay that. I wouldn't!
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Very interesting article but, to my mind, this is the best part of the story:-


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There are those in the area that say I was foolish not to have kept the lot, and could easily have sold them abroad with nobody any the wiser.

'But my son would have known, and what sort of an example is that for a boy to get from his father? I don't have any regrets.

'I thought to be an example for my son. He is passionate about history.
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They are, on average, not worth anything like 400 euros each. Take a look at the weak strikes, test cuts, and generally poor condition. The best one--the one with the individual reverse photo (Why didn't they show the obverse too--Is it poor?) probably is worth the 400 euros they mention, but in the bulk photo there is hardly a coin that is clearly well-struck. The article has errors. "Experts say each 5mm penny is worth £400." 5 mm? Thick?

"They are believed to be the oldest counterfeit coins ever found [This is false] and were produced just 400 years after the first ever coins were made." Counterfeits were made within 100 years of the introduction of coinage. Before Alexander the Great and Philip II, the siglos type often attributed to Xerxes-Darius III was widely counterfeited.

http://esty.ancients.info/imit/Greek.html

Ancient coins are a pretty obscure area for expertise. Stories about them in newspapers are often not quite right.

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