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Jordan
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Hi I'm looking for help to know if I can sell the coin that I have ?! I already did the carbon test and I found it's 2017 years the age of it So I'm looking for help Thanks    *** Edited by Staff - Edited to crop images, in the future please crop before uploading ***Edited by Jordan1
09/29/2022 11:03 am
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Presumably the coin is made of metal and does not contain any carbon. So how did you carbon test it?
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 Jordan
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It's silver  |
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 Silver is inorganic. Edited by MartiVltori
09/29/2022 11:49 am
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United States
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Also this Lucius Verus with the chariot reverse is an extremely common tourist replica and as far as I know is not even based on a legitimate example.
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And one more thing. Your 2017 year old estimate (which of course is impossible to achieve with carbon dating on inorganic material) would put it 156 years before Lucius Verus' reign.
I can only come to 1 of 2 conclusions:
1) You hold the only known legitimate example of a coin made by time travelling Romans. Very hard to put a price on something like this. Millions to be sure.
2) You intend to defraud someone by selling a terrible fake as genuine.
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09/29/2022 12:14 pm
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Jordan
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This is what the Antique Coin Examination Center told me !
So it's not from my mind , that's why I'm asking for help
And he offered me 50k $ and I refused his offer .
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Well you better go and take that 50k because any real Lucius Verus in this condition would be lucky to fetch 50 dollars.
But then again, you have something really special here. Proving that Romans had the technology to travel back in time to A.D. 5 to make a coin of a ruler that ruled from A.D. 161 - 169. Fascinating.
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09/29/2022 12:20 pm
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United States
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Jordan, go back to the Antique Coin Examination Center and accept their $50K offer.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Here is a seller on ebay that has 10 of them. Buy them all and resell for $50,000. 255158099588 |
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Jordan
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Thanks guys for your help I appreciate that & |
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@jor, first welcome to CCF. Second, to help us better document this piece, can you please add the diameter and weight to this thread? Also, perhaps instead of carbon dating as the test method for determining this alloy, you meant something else? For example, it would be nice to know the specific gravity. Thx.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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@marti, please take it down a notch. You have made your point quite clearly upthread and are now moving into being mean-spirited. Thx for helping to keep CCF friendly.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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