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Posted 07/09/2006 08:29 am
Great information - more than I was able to find.
The coin came from an old accumulation which was excavated near Cadiz, Spain. There are 45 others in that group. I got it from a traveling collector of general antiques who wanted to sell them. I presumed they were fakes - so I bought them for study purposes. But the more I looked I couldn't find anything wrong with them.
There were 6 coins in the group that even I could identify by Emperor. I posted them on ebay at the same time and ended up getting bids totaling about $700. That more than paid for my costs for the group. One of the bidders sent one of them to David Sears and got it certified and attributed - he was bragging that he had paid only a fraction of the value. Then I took a few to a coin show in Boston and got one authenticated as a Julius Caesar from a colonial Spanish mint - a very rare one. That is why I stopped selling them. That was about 4 or 5 years ago and I am just getting back to working on the group.
I believe that they are real.
Thanks for the help - the book you referred to - would that have most of the Spanish Colonial mints in it? I am very lost at how to start with this group. I tried the wildwinds site but I know so little about the coins that I couldn't locate any.
I will try again and post a few more if I get an attribution to see if you concur.
The coin came from an old accumulation which was excavated near Cadiz, Spain. There are 45 others in that group. I got it from a traveling collector of general antiques who wanted to sell them. I presumed they were fakes - so I bought them for study purposes. But the more I looked I couldn't find anything wrong with them.
There were 6 coins in the group that even I could identify by Emperor. I posted them on ebay at the same time and ended up getting bids totaling about $700. That more than paid for my costs for the group. One of the bidders sent one of them to David Sears and got it certified and attributed - he was bragging that he had paid only a fraction of the value. Then I took a few to a coin show in Boston and got one authenticated as a Julius Caesar from a colonial Spanish mint - a very rare one. That is why I stopped selling them. That was about 4 or 5 years ago and I am just getting back to working on the group.
I believe that they are real.
Thanks for the help - the book you referred to - would that have most of the Spanish Colonial mints in it? I am very lost at how to start with this group. I tried the wildwinds site but I know so little about the coins that I couldn't locate any.
I will try again and post a few more if I get an attribution to see if you concur.
