Oops, Isle of Man - couldn't resist the pun (Wight-right) - a Manx token, sure as any grailless bat. Mark ( ;<{D} ... From: "John Isles" <jisles@...> ...
John, Please do me the favor of removing MY address from your automatic anti-spam reply program - I was only trying to respond in a polite way to your question...
This is also the beauty of "buy-it-now". If you list a coin with a reasonable buy price and someone wants to pony up what you think the coin is worth, it can...
Ted, I'd like to add my thanks for your speaking out. Too many newbies swallow the CFDL line of bullshit before they have the experience to understand that...
Hello, I've got most of this one, I think, but cannot find an exact match -- the mintmark looks wrong. Obverse legend is FLIVLCONSTANTVSNOBC, reverse is a five...
... pulling it off before any bids go up doesnt violate that standard. Its his property until someone makes a legitimate bid. That is the rules according to...
http://tinyurl.com/27g6m The coin above is 11mm. The obv. might be the head of Dionysos (Heracles was also suggested). The reverse is a club and greek ...
Now youre getting into the area of what constitutes "the end of the auction". If Ebay allows someone to withdraw an item, in effect, the auction IS over. Brian...
Rob: Hate to disappoint you. 1) The coin is from Nicomedia (mint mark SMNgamma) 2) RIC # 94 (r1) 3) It is Constantius II and not Constantius Gallus. CG was...
<G> You have to love how close some of the lettering looks. I agree it is Constantius II, but attributed it as SMHgamma, Heraclea, RIC VII, pg. 551, #78. RIC...
Maybe the seller lost confidence in the coin itself, started to question it's authenticity and chose to end the auction.That's been done before. Does anyone...
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Hi: I was looking for the FAQs for the further explaination of extended flames and abusive language. IMHO this post is beyond the limits of civil discourse. ...
Cliff, I, too, was surprised by this virulent post, because as a collector I am very interested in the subject of forensic numismatics and being able to ...
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May 1, 2004 8:03 pm
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It's sad, but there are those whose positions are so strongly held that they consider that a state of war exists between them and... whom? The folks whose...
Hello Susan, I have very strong feelings about what goes on on the CFDL. 98% of it is useless. If you want to learn about truly identifying false coins that...
Sounds like the CFDL is the National Inquirer for coin collectors...that's why I choose to 'stay away'. Bob Effler [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Howard, Thank you for your response! See, I didn't even know the ANA had a course in fraud detection! I'm going to look into this right now! Thanks! Susan...
Cliff, I appolgize for offending your sensibilities. I have to admit that I'm somewhat suprised that you are so sensitive since you've been around and you know...
What's the dif? I would appreciate it if a person 'in the know' , would give me a cite for this coin, and tell me how to distinguish one from the other. I...
Susan, I don't have a list of forgery links handy, but I know that some members have such lists posted on their web pages and perhaps they could speak up. For...
The short story here is that, if there is an XXI In Ex. it is most assuredly an Ant. Though, that is not always true, in every case, since some Ant's do not...
Hello Susan, I'm afraid that the IBSCC is very much the 'old school' in terms of disseminating information on forgeries. The old way of thinking was to limit...
Susan, As usual, Howard has some very good points. But this one stands out among the rest; ... This point is the reason why dealers can be your first line of ...
Kevin, Thank you for your responses and information. Although I would very much love to handle thousands of coins, (heck I'd volunteer at the local ancient...
Hi Kevin/Moneta: Thank you for your kind words. Yes, I did recently release the 2nd edition Classical Coin Forgery Booklet and I would like to thank all the...
I turn to my coins as to favorite books to breathe an atmosphere of something freer and better than the political rhetoric of wartime. Perhaps it is because, ...
Greetings, Several years ago I traded the coin below to Hannes Mayer. http://www.ancientcoins.biz/pages/owl/ David Sear authenticated the coin and stated the...
Hi, Sorry about the caps. I recently came across a Carcalla coin with the follow inscriptions: OBV: ANTONINVS PIVS AVG REV: FELICITAS AVGG AR Denarius OBV: ...
Robert, I think that Ad-Aware was already mentioned on this list already, though I would like to confirm that Ad-Aware, which is also found on the same site as...
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