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im not saying anything - just showing facts, its your choice to make decisions from my pictures , just prove me that im wrong

 

if this is not enough evidence for you guys then i dont know who i can talk to

 

sorry my english is limited

 

thanks for support , its really frustrating when you buy this kind of crap with hard earn money

 

Sure that the Nerva must be fake?
The blue cycle "BUBBLES" are corrosion pits and not circular holes from gas bubbles, that can be sometimes found on bad cast fakes.
The coin has a massive corrosion problem.
The edge crack was possibly filled a little bit with patina or dirt or encrustrations. The metall of the coin is reacting in its environment with chemicals and so the edge crack will react too with chemicals and will get there a patina that can fill the edge crack a little bit and make it looking less sharp. And often dirt or encrustrations are not removed from edge cracks, when cleaning. What you cycled black is not a filled edge crack it is either patina or encrustration or a die break in ancient dies. It looks like the coin was harshly cleaned and possibly smoothed on obverse and I guess it possibly had a thick and or ugly patina. Patina needn´t to grow everywhere on coin surface equally !! Edge cracks are supposed to go through both side (reverse and obverse)! You can see that the edge crack ends on obverse and reverse on the same position! There is no counterpart as it should be on obverse for what you think is a filled edge crack on reverse. The edge crack should go through both side and end on same position on both sides and if edge crack is actually filled you should see it on obverse and reverse and not only on reverse.

 

I add some links to coins with rised lines (die breaks in ancient dies/matrixes will occur as rised lines with higher relief on coins). And on such rised lines from die/matrix breaks patina can grow and patina is not always growing everywhere equally and even. (As possible explanation for rised line which is cycled black on picture, but there can be of course many different explanations all I want to show is that such lines can occur on authentic coins, too and are not necessarily an evidence for a coin to be fake.

Examples for die Breaks, showing that they will occur as rised lines:

Through eye

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1495631

Through head

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=351324

AussieCollector "But... what about the sanding of the edges?"

I have authentic sestertii, that have such "sanding" removed patina on 1 or two spost on edge too, not sure why they are there but my coins are 100% authentic with a 100% authentic patina and the patina pretty much everywhere intact on them.
File marks on the whole edge to remove casting seam and sprue would be a serious problem.
But on the Nerva the patina on the edge seems to be intact except on two spots and I can not see there file marks or traces of casting sprue edge.
If you produce a cast fake you generally remove the seam and sprue first and then you apply an artificial patina.

Imho it is not possible to do a reliable authentication based on this pictures, it could be authentic or fake so much better pictures would be required or an examination by one or better more REAL experts in hand.

I am not sure if it is so good and fair to mention and attacking the seller although it is not proven that the coin is actually fake and even if the coin would be fake, everyone makes mistakes and the seller does not seem to sell knowing+intentionally fakes and even if the coin would be fake it would be a honest mistake and the seller is even offering a refund although it is not proven that the coin must be fake.
I do not understand what the seller did wrong.

And if a real expert like Curtis (working as expert for HJB) says that the coin looks ok for him, then I would at least overthink my opinion because the chance that Curtis is wrong is much lower than the chance, that you are wrong.

"curtislclay" "Looks authentic to me, because of the sharpness of some of the details and of the pitting on the obverse."

To accept only and appreciate opinions or arguments that support the own opinion is not good because then contrary opinions will be neglected although the other side is possibly right and has the better and more convincing arguments.

 

Just return the coin and get your money back.
BAM! Problem solved.
You don't need to prove anything.

Bonus points if you don't buy from them again.

 

Little more from same seller

 

Check that reverse on Postumus dupondius

 

It looks like they all came from same “ engraver” and metal appearing to be the same on all of them

 

It seems like you truly have an axe to grind here. If you weren't satisfied, then don't buy from then again, it's pretty simple.

 

Here is one more

 

Some people asked for more evidence.. here you go

 

And here is one more just to nail it ( and no it doesn’t look tooled)