Is this Julius Caesar fake?

Sure looks it the elephant looks strange. Could this be a modern fake?

 

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It seems aggressively cleaned with acid or electrolysis. I don’t find anything strange in the elephant style.

 

what about the 2 front legs? Usually they are angled.

 

There are several styles of elephants found on these "traveling mint" denarii of Julius Caesar, including a stumpy little anatomically incorrect elephant with parallel front legs. CT member @Carthago has several of them and describes them in this post:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-good-problem-to-have-julius-caesar-denarii.285103/#post-2542884