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    Are these Coins Authentic?

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    2 hours ago, MrZun said:

    Brazilian

    ..i deal with Rio De La Plata down south of the border(from where i'm @ that is :P)  they are a good auction house ..i won my Didius Julianus sestertius from them...one of the most satisfying buys of a coin i've ever made...:)...they aren't in Brazii proper (Argentina i believe), but close enough you could hit'em with a rock from your country 😛 i highly recommend them...

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    Crystallisation - is it a guarantee of authenticity?

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    1 hour ago, Nerosmyfavorite68 said:

    That's a good question.  I had also wondered how long the process takes.

    Well, I guess the coin I just ordered isAlbinusBrutif.Rome48BC.ARDenarius16mm3.97g3hRSCPostumia14LAC.jpg.23d0555e71fb52544fc1c7d5fd74325c.jpg authentic (probably crystallized) and my poor, broken Nero is, too.

    The above is 3.97g.  The weight is normal, but the porous surfaces led me to assume the coin is probably brittle.

    ...a denarius of Brutus Albinus?...whose portrait is it?...and welcome to the Bruti Albinus club..(put'er there paly! ^^) and the ides of March are upon us...lQQks like a fine coin! 🙂

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    MY SLOW BOAT FROM ITALY CAME IN!...1ST UP, A QUATRINO OF LORENZO De MEDICI II

    in World Coins

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    ...and it wasn't really too slow, the 14th was the sale date and they were here last nite..:)..3 coins of the Medici(whose name literally mean Dr-being of medicine so they may have been in that line earlier on one would suppose  i know of more than one doctor in this age who opened a bank or 2 😛 )

    Lorenzo ll, father of Catherine, Queen of France, and of Alessandro, 1st Duke of Florence.  son of Piero the unfortunate and grandson of Lorenzo the Magnificent and of course nephew to Pope Leo X and Clement VII..   he was granted Lordship of Florence in 1513 at the ripe age of 24..when his other uncle, Giulano De Medici stepped down from government.... not being happy with just the Lordship of Florence, he then asked his uncle Pope Leo X to also make him Duke of Urbino ...he agreed but only trouble was there was already a Duke Rovere of Urbino...this would lead to The War of Urbino in which Lorenzo ll led a Papal army of 10,000 to the wall of that good city and where he would be wounded with a bullet from an arquebus, an early type of long rifle that featured the 1st trigger fire mechanism..

    his rule of Florence and Urbino would last from 1516-1519. he died May 4th at 26 years old, 21 days after the birth of Catherine, being said  'he died of disease and excess'..at 26?!?...(talk about life in the fast lane)

    Post yer coins n comments 🙂

    15mm

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    Shipping fees/methods/speed

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    ..i  guess my Medici coins are on a slow boat from Italy...i ain't heard anything since the 18th when they departed the international exchange center....whatever that is...9_9..but it was fairly cheap 🙂

    Covid

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    ...hope you feel better soon Donna...i've had it i guess for about 2 years..i get feeling better but i go to the store once a week and bring another version home and give it to my cat....9_9

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