Dear Lou, You hit it on the head. Problem is also, there is no exhaustive trustworthy work, yet, on all the counterstamps we see. LOU This is the point. I have...
Kern is a hard worker exposed out there and I do not see him dumping fakes anywhere and never have. Also he is one of the most reliable dealers and if a...
Dear John: In fact you are right!!! This is a gold coin that should be dinar but you see over the coin dirham! This was an academic course for me, because if I...
... Dear John/Iris it sounds like someone copied a gold dinar to make a fake in silver. Wilson Guertin. ... arabic ... discover ... exactly ... mold. ... ...
CFDL: I was interested by these two coins and I had not yet completed my research when I recieved an email asking about them. I have no opinion about them,...
I would expect the shekel to weigh between 13.8-14.2g, the stated 12.6g seems too low. Best regards, Tom ... -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client:...
Well, photo looks somewhat OK, on shekle, however the Private Seller thing really erks me and one of our rules to really analyse the coin. and usually to...
In a message dated 1/1/2006 5:26:59 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, laubstein@... writes: 1) Xerxes I. Achaemenid King.AR Siglos 485BC.Ancient Greek Item...
CFDL: I found a basically honest seller of coins, Tarentino_fr, that sold a batch of 13 replicas for extraordinary high prices, averaging almost $100 each for...
In a message dated 1/1/2006 8:06:54 PM Pacific Standard Time, viostel@... writes: Dear List Hello and happy New Year to everybody. I will appreciate any...
Hello group! Any opinion about this coin???? http://www.allegro.pl/show_item.php?item=79568039 It is fishy to me....... but I may be wrong. Thanks, Kwinto ...
Hi, Cliff/List Good afternoon. I could not say a lot on the coins you place. Those sold as Becker coins are certainly fakes, and he says.What makes me wonder...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8368049957 Does not look right and the raised area in front of the figure looks like the "die" was supposed...
Good afternoon, Ramón/Cliff/List Well, I finally see from where comes the unusal wear in patina... Museum copies...... Good catch to both... When I will...
Hello Cliff / CFDL, First, I can wonder if all the winning bidders read French well enough to know they are buying fakes. Maybe the word COPY should have been...
Ramon/CFDL: Thank you. Some of the copies that you showed I seem to recognize from Antika99=Sanfoura852 & Sadigh Gallery. Besides, it is always nice to have...
Alan/CFDL: Joel1517 seems to be an ancient and medieval coin buyer on ebay France, so I assume that he understands French, just maybe not well enough. He also...
Incidentally, I noticed that in the single sentence he added concerning the Galba denarius he made two spelling mistakes ! he must have a problem in French...
_http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZaolsQQhtZ-1_ (http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZaolsQQhtZ-1) if anyone wants to see what the real parthians bronzes and perses...
What are the opinions of this coin (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&item=8368087570&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1) and coinseller...
Tom: You are right on the money!! Way to go!! I analyzed the weights of a batch of 72 shekels of Tyre w/Melquart from www.coinarchives.com , found in this 79...
