Tack för dina ord, JKK ^^.
First of all I’d like to thank you for taking your time to respond to the thread. Great pointers!
At the moment I am having a dialogue with a company in Hamburg, Germany, who in turn have a relationship with Heritage auctions. From what I have been able to gather, Heritage auctions have In the past successfully hammered a number of these coins in particular.
I have mentioned the past authentication to the company from Hamburg, their response assuring in that said instance is well respected. However, I’ll try to reach them myself and try my luck in confirming if such a meeting over this coin ever occurred. Thanks :).
Personally, I believe that if the coin would turn out to be counterfeit, the previous owner couldn’t possibly have been aware of this. The circumstances surrounding the whole ordeal is enough to assure me that I can rule that out at least. (Obviously contradicts the whole authenticity story but yeh yeh :p) Ofc, one could never be sure, but Sweden is microscopic compared to the US and hopefully I still remember hide-and-seek since childhood haha!
I will snap a few more pictures without directed light, if that perhaps could rule out the “jewelry piece” hunch you felt James_OldTowne?
I mean, obviously studying it IRL can’t be compared with pictures, I know that, heh.
I’ve also read about the kind of “frosty” luster these coins can/should have and feel that I could interpret that characteristic to this piece as well, if that adds to the positives, I’m unsure.
But if one would put all questionable aspects (like fake, cleaned, prev. mounted etc) aside, how would you otherwise judge the quality? In comparison to some other pieces, my own gut tells me that it’s condition is promising.
Well, I’m looking forward to tomorrow and what news it could bring. I appreciate the welcome!
Regards,
Joel