The continuing e-bay saga

Treat me like a slow learner. Is this a fake? Why?

 

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Lol. However, this description is a good deal less ridiculous than the OP sellers descriptions. For one, it's in complete sentences.

 

No proof coin were struck that year ...

 

@Kentucky and @Rick Stachowski Take that up with ANACS then. The coin honestly doesn't look that proof from the Ebay images, and the certification number comes up on ANACS with the same grade and all.



And a little research will shed light on the confusion. There is a mate strike that was once thought to be a proof strike. Its not a fake coin at all. A little research bears that out...and I'm not even a modern coin collector.

 

Most of the “ancient” coins offered on eBay are either fake or junk. There’s too much garbage to wade through - I only visit the stores of well-known, trusted dealers on eBay.

Ebay is pretty good at banning sellers of fake Louis Vuitton handbags and other fashion items. So I’m surprised eBay hasn’t banned the sellers of fake coins... or that certain infamous guy who commits consumer fraud daily by advertising massively reduced prices (when the goods were never available at the inflated price). Both practices are illegal in most countries and immoral in all.

 

The fashion brands probably do all the leg work with those to protect their brand.

 

https://forums.collectors.com/discu...nding-liberty-heres-one-in-an-anacs-holder/p2

Last page. They're calling it an error and it was a cross over first just wow

 

Forgive me, particularly if I've missed something or this is an especially stupid question, but "LRB"?

 

Late Roman Bronzes, usually referring to the post-denarius and post-antoninianus bronze/copper denominations that the Romans minted.

 

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*** @Sallent beat me to the answer by a mere few seconds*****

 

@Sallent @Smojo

Thank you, gentlemen; most kindly. Just to be clear, this general period would go from maybe around 350ish to 476 AD or so, or...?

Again, please do forgive my ignorance of the subject. After googling denarius and seeing they were originally worth "ten asses", I assumed it meant donkeys. Oy...

 

A.D. 294 is generally accepted as the start, because of a coin reform introduced by Diocletian that year. The end date may be a bit more fluid, but RIC X ends with A.D. 491...I like A.D. 450.