This solidus was recently sold: https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=394917 But lo and behold: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pid=19549
Very interesting. I took the liberty of putting them side by side for a better comparison. They look like « twins » don’t they ? I wonder what CNG would say about it…
I see a lot of differences between the coins. the strike and the relief on the B/W one is very mushy. Also the portrait's face is more skinny on the gold one.
I didn’t meant same coin but same dies…I have a twin brother but we are not the same person or identical !
The CNG solidus looks good to me, for what that is worth . This is a very common coin & I'm sure there are hundreds of these coins struck from the exact same dies on the market. The fake solidus does appear to be struck from the original dies that were made from the transfer technique. Pictured below is an example of the same coin type, from the same officina, that I'm sure is genuine. My coin was slabbed by NGC long ago after I became aware of so many fakes of this coin type.
