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.
Where did you get them to know they are authentic?
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.