3mo ago

Verification request: Eburones (Belgic tribe) gallic AR unit "rainbow cup" ~1AD

Bought this at a recent small auction for €100. Someone else mentioned it's an "official museum replica" rather than genuine.

Since my expertise is mostly in Romans, I must admit I'm sort of out of my depth with this one. It's not ferromagnetic and the weight checks out at 3.76g, but I am concerned about some of the surface marks.

I hope someone with some more knowledge in these can weigh in and help verify (or not) the authenticity.

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Don t museum replica s have a mark to make sure you know it is a replica.
- They should, most are produced by WRL and have a (tiny, but visible) WRL stamp somewhere. Can't find anything of the sort on here.
  
  What did he say ... Why he said it was fake?
Not my area of expertise, but I see nothing out of the ordinary with this one. Post the edges perhaps? In my experience, museum replicas don't look much like the real thing, probably on purpose.
That said, I can't find this issue in silver on acsearch.info - do you have a more complete attribution I can check for?

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