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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jay GT4, post: 3433067, member: 88526&quot;]Well I am 100% confident it is struck.&nbsp;&nbsp; The &quot;residual&quot; metal is corrosion and can even be seen in the Domitian denarius&nbsp; you posted from cgb.&nbsp; Being too round is not a sign it is fake.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know what an Antoninianus from 100 years later is supposed to prove.&nbsp; Anyone who knows what the fabric of ancient coins looks like will immediately recognize this coin as being struck and the corrosion as authentic.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think you can get a better picture of this coin. The picture is mine.&nbsp; The dealers picture wasn&#039;t nearly as good and yet 3 well known Flavian collectors, including myself,&nbsp; sought out this coin and have no issue with it. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;So, we need more than your memory of a friends coin that may or may not have been &quot;exactly&quot; the same from 5 years ago.&nbsp; Also simply being a die match doesn&#039;t prove it is fake.&nbsp; With these rare issues many times you find double die matches.&nbsp; I&#039;m not even sure how you would remember that it is a die match or from the same issue 5 years later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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