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New Member
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Hi All I am rather new in collecting roman coins and purchased a coin on ebay which I am not sure about its authenticity the weight is 13.8 . Does ět look legit ? any issues in it?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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 Im afraid this type is really commonly counterfeited, but when I went to check it against known fakes, I found this thread ( https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ne...etra.318302/) where a person reports that they bought this very coin. The guys over at cointalk didnt find problems with it, which is as good a sign as you could hope for. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The guys over at cointalk didnt find problems with it Nor did Joe Sermarini find anything wrong with it when it was posted at Forum. |
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New Member
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thanks guys wow it is same coin unless a fake made identical? ... could it be that there was an issue with the coin and was returned and dealer posted it again for sale? in that case there could be an issue with it as the original owner didnt keep it
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Moderator
 United States
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but you are already a member here under the name of AlRashid. Why another user name? Also why do you give your location as Texas when in fact your in Canada? I changed it.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
4208 Posts |
I imagine the seller is the very guy that bought it, as they are using the exact same picture. If they are a newer ebay account, they might be straight up scamming and aren't in possession at all. There really is no way to create such exact replicas of coins except potentially very good electrotypes, but even those would have trouble creating the same toning. |
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United States
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When did you buy it on ebay? Please post the ebay item number. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7066 Posts |
Edited by Kamnaskires
01/09/2019 2:49 pm
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Valued Member
Canada
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The coin is confirmed fake by a local dealers guys so I will return to the ebay seller. I didnt know if he has a VCoins shop |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
4208 Posts |
How has he come to that conclusion? Is the metal content off? How does he account for the 'horn silver'?
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Moderator
United States
23731 Posts |
Seeing that you didn't reply to my comment I'm going to give you a choice which account do I ban. Having more than one account is a red flag. Unless I hear from you with an explanation I will ban all your account and any further ones you try and register.
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Valued Member
Canada
167 Posts |
Hey Ron
To be honest the reason I create a second account was to avoid noise as I noticed people from forum coins are tracking me here such as JSermarini who found my post regarding his coin. I just hate to be tracked by such sites :(
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Valued Member
Canada
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Hi Ben
The metal content is below:
96% silver (way off should have been max 80%)
0.83 gold
0.10 lead
2.58 copper
Horn silver is faked based on what the local dealer said to me . Is this dealer reliable? To be honest I dont know him so cant trust him much
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United States
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I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and let you use this account but I'm locking AlRashid. A word of warning, do not register any other accounts here. I hope that is clear!
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New Member
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Thanks Ron! sorry again but had to do this because I felt my old account was compromised and being tracked. Ben, I found this coin from same dealer and it seems identical (match die) which makes me more thinking it is fake. https://www.ma-shops.com/aeternitas...e=1&curr=USD |
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Pillar of the Community
 Spain
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I dont think the reverse is a die match? Any thoughts?...Paul  |
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Posted 01/09/2019 1:51 pm
