Hello Taher / CFDL, I qualified my opinion about this coin, that it is similar to many coins, from Lebanon, known to me to be (mostly to all), fakes. It is...
Hello Taher / CFDL, Do I get to choose which expert, will make the decision, to collect my $700? Can I send the coin to Eastern or Southern Europe, at my cost...
This story indicates that there is much potential for abuse in enforcing cultural property law. The arbitrary way in which all this happened is almost...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=532&item=3937760635&r d=1 My specialty is ancients and there is plenty on the site to warn about but ...
David Hendin has written a new book - NOT KOSHER: Forgeries of Ancient Jewish and Biblical Coins, which he has been researching for a couple of decades and...
If any of you can make it and are relatively close there is a 300 table big show which will have every kind of coin imaginable in West Palm Beach Florida this...
I have wanted to discuss this further, but unfortunately I have not been feeling well and have not had the time... I think it is important that collectors and...
Jeff/Antonio/CFDL: Here is some information that might help you Background - It is illegal in Israel to export antiquities (over 300 years old) without a...
Hello Alfred / CFDL, Especially coin sellers, versus numismatic academics, are more likely to write books on forgeries and alterations, if they can sell enough...
I have now gotten two coins on Ebay that when recieved are ovious forgeries. Returning them for a refund in both cases would have cost me more money which I do...
Gee, I just noticed that we reached 900 members... For all the newbies: stay around. We are somehow a family fighting forgers. Most of the members here are...
Opinions please on surfaces and devices of item 3939502620,Livia dupondius.Private sale by Jima1952,some of whose coins have already been discussed in CFDL.COA...
I will be attending the Numismata coin show in Berlin and will be in Berlin from November 12th through November 14th. If any of you will be attending I would...
Hello Ramon / CFDL, Sear COA or not, my opinion tooled, at a minimum smoothed. A tooled or smoothed coin, in my opinion, is not entirely authentic. Many do not...
Guys, How many times did we discuss whether or not looking at pictures is useful in forgery-fighting? Many of our criticasters here, state that pictures are...
Hello Alan/CFDL I agree 100% with your opinion: " A tooled or smoothed coin is not entirely authentic ". NOTE. eBay's policies on selling coins and paper money...
E-bay's policy is generally non interferance. Probably because there are too many fakes to monitor effectively, and what's more, who's to say what is sent for...
Ave group New approach to misleading.Anyone ready to report with me to the owner of the Augean estables.i.e. .B.. Item 3939723583. Seller ID peterbubola. EID...
This coin most probably comes from Paganecoins, typical patina and heavy smoothing/tooling (tooling being, for me different from reengraving). About reengraved...
I have to disagree to some extent. There is a big difference between smoothing and tooling. A smoothed coin has not been altered from it's original state-...
Hello Ramon / CFDL, I agree being misleading is bad, possibly even criminal. Nor can I agree,t hat only poor to mid grade fakes should be supressed, only high...
Hello Alfred / CFDL, I see smoothing, as when surfaces not present in the coin already, are created, by cutting (or filling also). Tooling as when there are...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/solomon_prog_summary.shtm l Dave Welsh dwelsh46@... Unidroit-L Listowner [Non-text portions of this...
... The reverse appears similarly tooled in the clothing and globe (or whatever that is in the bottom left field). Another Pagane masterpiece. -- Reid...
It appears to me that Hadrian inherited not only the Empire but the hairdresser too and that Gods and men went to the same taylor. For the moment I'm finished...
