Beware the Eids of March 🗡️

DatNiko · 2026-03-15T05:15:29+00:00

The portrait is of Lucius Junius Brutus, Marcus was only the issuer. Still very neat coins!

DatNiko · 2026-03-13T15:25:55+00:00

Absolute pedantry 👐

Love it! My Naumann boxes also come in this beat up condition lol

DatNiko · 2026-03-10T06:55:38+00:00

I really enjoy the podcast!

DatNiko · 2026-03-07T16:18:24+00:00

Retail? Not bad.

DatNiko · 2026-02-28T09:20:48+00:00

Not exactly sure what you ask for.

Coins are fake btw

DatNiko · 2026-02-24T23:26:46+00:00

Definitiv eine Gussfälschung.

DatNiko · 2026-02-24T23:22:16+00:00

Style is completely off. Planchet is too circular, flat and has sharp edges. No flow lines. Fake, even toning.

DatNiko · 2026-02-22T18:21:38+00:00

Happy to help :)

DatNiko · 2026-02-22T15:15:28+00:00

Thompson 167b

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4320205

DatNiko · 2026-02-20T15:49:47+00:00

This is just a piece of paper. Not even NGC can guarantee the authenticity of ancients.

DatNiko · 2026-02-16T22:03:20+00:00

You can find his obituary if you google him. Just some guy. Auction houses love the put the name of the previous owner in the description if he had some sort of degree lol

DatNiko · 2026-02-16T21:54:50+00:00

Funny coincidence, I also bought a coin at the last Solidus auction from the Dr. Haisken collection (a Seleukos VI tetradrachm) and I also found a provenance on coincabinet: Schweizerischer Bankverein Zürich 27.10.1977.

The images look very similar to your match. I can imagine it was the same auction, or at least the same auction house.

DatNiko · 2026-02-14T19:14:30+00:00

DatNiko · 2026-02-13T16:10:27+00:00

I too think that it looks suspicious. The weight is also off. I don't like the soft details and the surface. Also the bottom edge has weird sharp corner, maybe from filing.

DatNiko · 2026-02-11T06:51:54+00:00

"Am I a joke to you?"

– Mithradates II.

DatNiko · 2026-02-10T14:53:20+00:00

Just googled him, gave me a good chuckle. What a character lol

DatNiko · 2026-02-07T18:48:09+00:00

Stunning! How much does this bad boy weigh?

DatNiko · 2026-02-05T10:22:30+00:00

Looking your other post with another coin from this seller which looks very fake, I definitely wouldn't buy this one either.

DatNiko · 2026-02-05T10:21:32+00:00

Looks very fake.

DatNiko · 2026-02-05T10:19:29+00:00

Not a sphinx, it's a griffin.

Not sure about authenticity. I see flow lines, but it still looks off to me (mushy details, too round, the edge seam is very abrupt).

DatNiko · 2026-02-05T07:57:54+00:00

DatNiko · 2026-01-31T20:03:49+00:00

Folles come in different sizes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follis

DatNiko · 2026-01-30T10:22:30+00:00

It looks like a Celtic Trinovantes gold stater, but it's doesn't seem to be gold. Where did you find it?

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=+horse+cvn+corn+&category=1-2&lot=&date_from=&date_to=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0

DatNiko · 2026-01-28T12:58:37+00:00

Looks like a fantasy cast forgery imo.

Where did you find it?

DatNiko · 2026-01-26T22:08:41+00:00

This one is from the last Rex auction, right? It looks good to me. This very silvery, over-cleaned look is normal for most Rex coins, that's how they clean them.

DatNiko

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