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This guy was at 2400 early this morning… prettt strong running up to the close though!

I just got an orange patina coin in today. In my experience, real sand, no matter how orange, doesn’t lift off when rubbed with a qtip (maybe a very little bit intially) fake sand patina though, immediately lifts off. A sopping wet qtip will dissolve a lot of the glue, and 2-3 more subsequent qtips will removal 90% of the sand, and leave the stops a bright orange. the issue is you may have a worse coin that you started with.

So that’s where all of these are! I’d love find one of these at auction, but they are quite rare.

5 years ago, just as I was getting into Medieval and ancients, I thought I found a magic source on eBay, Serbia specifically, that no else knew about. A tough to find Harold II and a few others. Sadly, I discovered these Saxon coins were minted in Serbia, about 3 weeks before going on EBay. As has been said, stay away.

I’m targeting several pieces in Leu. However I’m having to balance that between today’s targets in Numismad, and a few in Nomos. So my bid won’t go in under just before they begin hammering. Others may have the same idea and prices may jump, in which case I probably will be above where I want to be.

@Zimm thank you very much for the response. @Rand appreciate your comments. The new owner may choose to remove them, he’s a bit of a cleaner.

@Nerosmyfavorite68 I think your patina is real. It’s rather thick, which is a good sign and zooming in, because you have a good picture, you can see specks of quartz in there. That is a very good sign of real sand from my experience

This piece sold today at the Nummitra auction. Looking past the fake patina on it, it seems a very interesting due to the border. Almost never see Byzantine pieces, especially Justin 1 pieces, with anything extra on it. at first glance it looks like an SB84 but my friend who bought it, and I, as well as a few others, haven’t been able to find any similar bordered coins. Anyone here familiar.?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AncientCoins/s/wM41NBBQ4k I never linked a Reddit post but I believe this is it

sadly, a collector on Reddit has just posted the Alexis to show it off, 2 hours ago. he was immediately told it was fake, but had paid 107 for it. hopefully Ebay helps him out.

was going to post a different one but this is a solid example from Sicily. Follows the cool monogram as Valentinian’s awesome piece, this one is a follis. Sb 1107 ex Mike Gasvoda

For half the price I would have loved to be the owner. I imagine the final bidders have narrowed their needs quite a bit

I actually have 1. I believe this is Acke mint. Purchased from Brad Bowlin earlier this year. one of the few Greek coins in my collection.

https://www.biddr.com/auctions/nummitra/browse?a=4929&l=5968254

I saw that Heraclius Jerusalem. For an ugly coin, whew 375 hammer! Probably the first I remember seeing though. I must agree, Constans II from Constantinople is about as bad as they get. When people ask about attributions I have to say “good luck” as they all look bad. Here’s a nicer one from Carthage. His Sicilian pieces, and Carthage pieces, did get a little respect.