Hadrian Sestertius in Upcoming Auction

I'm far from an expert and I have trouble seeing what others see too. One way of telling is that a heavily tooled coin may be underweight. On the OP coin the details especially on the portrait just look off. My Aegyptos As above I think is just smoothed but it may have some tooling too. Of course I may be totally off. It could be a fake for all I know.

 

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In some cases, it's kinda like telling the difference in style between morgans, and silver rounds.