I recently purchased a whole collection and in it where all of these unidentified silver coins - i enjoy researching them but just wondered if anyone could straight away tell me roughly what era / location these coins are from . I know they’re all different but there are a lot of similar pieces.
On the face of it, too many of these appear to be cast replicas. I would identify and authenticate each one of them before you do anything else. I hope I am wrong for your sake, but many look suspicious to my eye.
On the face of it, too many of these appear to be cast replicas. I would identify and authenticate each one of them before you do anything else. I hope I am wrong for your sake, but many look suspicious to my eye.
That could very well be the case - I will go through them all individually before I ever came to swapping / selling. There are many others which I am certain are genuine. I will group them together and try take some more photos to get a second opinion.
That's a great coin lot and I'm sure will provide hours of fun researching and identifying them all. I see nothing that would indicate the coins being replicas although Mongolian coins aren't really my expertise. You'll probably end up with a very desirable swap list once you're done. 😃
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Wow. You have a great project to keep you busy. I too look forward to seeing your swap list once you are done.
I wouldn't have known enough to point you in the right direction because I am still learning about ancients. I would have guessed Morocco based on the star on the one on the lower left. The one on the upper left looks more like a family than a soldier or a king, and that left-facing lion in the lower right-middle reminds me of Iran. I hope you post what you identify.
thank you both - yes will keep me very busy. I will keep you updated with how I get along, there are even more coins I didn’t get to photograph which are similar to these.
Something to keep me busy for a very long time - and yes I may have to get into swapping on Numista. All requires time which I lack at the moment..