Ancient Coins

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A community for collectors of ancient and medieval coins.

ID requests are welcome, but please post clearly lit images of both sides of the coin as well as a picture of the edges of the coin.

Sales posts are welcome. Inspired by the old ancientcoins subreddit, memes and jokes are only allowed on the last day of the month.

I general, just be nice to each other :)

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My smallest and my largest ancient Greek coins together (feddit.dk)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Both of these were bought at auctions or from coin dealers specializing in ancient coins :) The large one was bough on vcoins where you can generally trust the coins to be authentic.

The boring and somewhat useless answer to how I know they are authentic is experience - I've spent the better part of a decade collecting ancient coins, reading about ancient coins, and trading ancient coins...

Back when I started this community I copied a nice post from reddit on how to spot fakes.