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Ancients are not my thing but in amongst a lot of old coins including Roman there are those I believe are most certainly real. I am not sure however about the following ones - they are all larger than the others I have at around 20mm-30mm. My knowledge of spotting fakes goes about as far as whether they have WRL written on them!!   Edited by Coinaholic73
02/07/2016 12:25 pm
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Rest in Peace
United States
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All appear to be Byzantine.
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Pillar of the Community
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I personally have no hesitation in stating that the two at left look good. I believe they are a Constantine X follis (upper left) and an anonymous issue follis (lower left). Echizento will be along to confirm and to offer his expert opinion on the bunch.
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The only one that looks a little doubtful is the top right the Anastatius. All the others look good.
Top left Constantine X, Bottom left, looks like a Class A2 Anonymous folles of Basil II & Constantine VIII, and the bottom right looks like a half folles of Justinian I.
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Thanks for your help - it seems I need to educate myself on ancients! Those coins were in this lot. Is there anything here that is remotely screaming fake to you?   |
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Is there anything here that is remotely screaming fake to you? The wood grain?  |
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Hard to say too many coins to look at at once.
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Pillar of the Community
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I am particularly intrigued by these, and looking forward to close-ups with flips sides shown.  |
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That is a super lot! I see a couple of really nice radiates (maybe Tetricus?) in the first pic; also that turtle coin Bob pointed out could be something really special. Looking forward to close-ups  Also, none of these appear to be fake outright. Perhaps a few barbaric imitations, but those are collectible in their own right. |
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I'm going to take a guess that what we see in this one may be a crown of Isis, and that it may turn out to be a Cleopatra III/Ptolemy IX Soter joint issue from Kyrene, c. 116 - 110BC. I could be way off base, but I'm looking forward to finding out.  |
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About 100 coins in this lot.
A lot of effort for a dealer to invest his time to identify them all, where his time may be better spent elsewhere.
This is where a collector can buy a bargain, provided he is able to identify them all, but lots of time needed.
This is the sort of worn ancients lot that I like.
Love to have them in hand.
A real challenge for me to identify them all.
Some would take less than an hour,
I would need months, but lots of fun, and lots to learn along the way!
Fully identified, they would be valued at lots more.
Coinaholic73: Take months and patience. You will end up learning a lot about ancients. What you can't identify, post individual coin pictures.
Refer also to wildwinds, vcoins, zeno.ru, and Google images.
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The wood grain? Haha! Ok, here are the ones requested for a closer look. I actually think the one with the H on is a lead seal or token perhaps.   |
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And before I hit the sack ( it's very late here!) these are close ups of some of the smaller coins which have better detail   |
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Pillar of the Community
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 Drachm of the Chalukyas of Gujarat (Gadhaiya paisa) Edited by Kamnaskires
02/07/2016 08:52 am
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The upper and lower left appear to be Indo-Sassanian, from the Gupta empire circa 11th century. I believe the upper center is Kushan.
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Pillar of the Community
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 I believe: Imad al-Din Zengi II (1170 - 1197 AD), AE dirham |
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