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That doesn’t look real at all

 

this is a gross fake?

 

It's supposed to be Trajan but it's a modern fake.

 

And not even close to anything real.

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The "cellator" must have inspired himself from


But probably he was very drunk.
I don't think this thing was even designed to make someone think it's an ancient coin.

 

Wouldn't be surprised if this was sold for a buck or two in a local gift shop

 

Probably. This is not related to the dangerous fakes we see every day.
I will ignore the style, letters, perfect round shape, whatever, but just some things that really shout:
- obverse legend - after IMP CAES NERVA the next letters make no sense (probably EIFRIAN CA is a TRAIAN but not close enough), then GER DAC, that looks like a DER DAC and is followed by PM I (?!) and a letter that is a hybrid between T and R
- reverse legend - I think here the cellator was not completely drunk, just starting, but he wrote PR1NCIPI and forgot how you do the last P
- the "exergue" - well that's super, AQ VA 6, this sounds like a space mission code name.

@paschka I sincerely hope you didn't pay too much for this nonsense. In fact I hope you didn't pay anything.

 

Thank you. Yes, I didn’t pay for this. I know that’s a souvenir.

 

Hello @paschka
Are you saying, that you knew, before you posted this thread, that the coin is a souvenir, and not authentic?
Or, are you saying, that you learned from this thread's responses, that the coin is a souvenir, and not authentic?

 

before this thread, I thought that this was a barbaric imitation of the ancient period with silver plating on a copper base, but I assumed that this was a modern souvenir fake.

there are finds of similar emitters from the time of the ancient tribes of the Sarmatians

 

This statement is difficult to understand. Maybe, what you are trying to say, is as follows :
"Before this thread, I thought that, there was a chance, that the coin was an authentic ancient barbaric imitation with silver plating on a copper base. But, I thought that, probably the coin was a modern souvenir fake."

 

He tried to imitate a Paduan by Giovanni Cavino (1500-1570) , is funny how he misspelled the most important word on the coin , IFRIANC = TRAIANO




and the original from acsearch :

 

Looks like it was once a pendant for a necklace.

 

Aqua Traiana, I don't know why I thought at the Danubius denarius.
Anyway I would prefer all the fakes to be done by wise and talented people, like this one's author.

 

very interesting story. This is a copy of a copy of a genuine 16th century coin.

 

I'm not sure the correctness of calling a Paduan a "genuine" coin

 

i.e. there were 3 coins. 1 - is an ancient Trojan, then there was the 2nd Piduan of the 16th century, and then the 3rd coin is the one that I showed here, that is, is this a copy already from the Piduan?

 

In a sense, a Paduan was not intended to be a "copy". A Paduan wasn't meant to fool anyone, because a Paduan has certain details that are completely different than an authentic coin. A Paduan was meant to be an artistic impression of an authentic coin, rather than a "copy" of an authentic coin. Notice, in the @singig post, that on the 2 Paduan coins, on the obverse, Trajan is wearing clothing, but on the authentic ancient coin Trajan is not wearing clothing.
EDIT : Maybe some Paduan coins were intended to fool people. I don't know. Here's an article, about them. There are probably much more extensive articles about them.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=paduan

 

P.S. : The authentic ancient Trajan coin is not a Paduan. The Paduan is the 16th century artistic impression.