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PJGS
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I'm a new to this world of numismatics, so my knowledge is fairly small. I'm interested in this coin but I'm afraid there's a lot of fakes out there so all help is welcomed.
The seller says it weights 27gr and is 39mm and he garantees the autheticity of this coin.
As you can see it is chopmarked, but it could be fake marks.
Do you think this coin is real?.
Thanks.
GDJMSP
I think you're gonna get the same answers you did elsewhere wink.gif
PJGS
ok.
Rotten Rodney
You mean they get to ask "Elsewhere" first? . . . .. I thought we were "Elsewhere".
jlueke
QUOTE(PJGS @ Nov 20 2006, 01:54 AM) [snapback]275297[/snapback]

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I'm a new to this world of numismatics, so my knowledge is fairly small. I'm interested in this coin but I'm afraid there's a lot of fakes out there so all help is welcomed.
The seller says it weights 27gr and is 39mm and he garantees the autheticity of this coin.
As you can see it is chopmarked, but it could be fake marks.
Do you think this coin is real?.
Thanks.

Does the seller have a regular store or business or a long history? Or, is the seller from China and on ebay for the pas three weeks?
GDJMSP
QUOTE(Rotten Rodney @ Nov 26 2006, 01:20 AM) [snapback]277186[/snapback]

You mean they get to ask "Elsewhere" first? . . . .. I thought we were "Elsewhere".



Now Rodney, I do get around a bit ya know grin.gif
PJGS
QUOTE(jlueke @ Nov 26 2006, 03:36 PM) [snapback]277271[/snapback]

Does the seller have a regular store or business or a long history? Or, is the seller from China and on ebay for the pas three weeks?


He is from germany and feedback is well above 800.
Guillaume
Hello all,
How do you explain this swastika mark ? Why on King Charles IV ? confused1.gif
gxseries
Swastika mark was probably made a long time ago by some Tibetian monks but it is in reverse. I wouldn't be suprised if someone came up with the idea of reversing it and make it as a chopmark a long time ago.
GDJMSP
The chop marks have been placed on the coin to misdirect attention away from the coin itself. Look at the coin, all those raised marks and bumps on the surface - it's a cast fake.
echizento
The coin doesn't look right at all.
28Plain
QUOTE(gxseries @ Dec 2 2006, 08:53 AM) [snapback]279221[/snapback]

Swastika mark was probably made a long time ago by some Tibetian monks but it is in reverse. I wouldn't be suprised if someone came up with the idea of reversing it and make it as a chopmark a long time ago.

I've seen the same swastika chopmark on 8 Reale coins I've had before. I had always assumed it was done in India since it appeared along with a Sanskrit chop mark or two more than once on coins I owned, but Tibet is another possibility that had not ocurred to me.
28Plain
QUOTE(echizento @ Dec 10 2006, 08:01 PM) [snapback]281874[/snapback]

The coin doesn't look right at all.

Looks good to me. I'd like to have it.
PJGS
as far as I know, the swastika is a sacred symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism.
It isn't a exclusive symbol of the nazi, although that's what ppl think.
PJGS
QUOTE(GDJMSP @ Dec 2 2006, 06:51 PM) [snapback]279319[/snapback]

The chop marks have been placed on the coin to misdirect attention away from the coin itself. Look at the coin, all those raised marks and bumps on the surface - it's a cast fake.


Couldn't those bumps be due to the hammering made to chopmark the other side of the coin?.
28Plain
QUOTE(PJGS @ Dec 16 2006, 06:40 PM) [snapback]283911[/snapback]

as far as I know, the swastika is a sacred symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism.
It isn't a exclusive symbol of the nazi, although that's what ppl think.

True, and the same mark was used by American indians as well. I've seen it on old textiles by southwestern tribes.
thedeadpoint
QUOTE(PJGS @ Dec 16 2006, 06:44 PM) [snapback]283915[/snapback]

Couldn't those bumps be due to the hammering made to chopmark the other side of the coin?.


assuming the dies are coin-alligned, the raised marks do not correspond too well with the chop marks on the opposite side.
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