A Sestertius of Matidia

My latest investment



MATIDIA AVG DIVAE MARCIANAE F
Diademed and draped bust right, hair arranged in coils on crown of head, surmounted with crescent-shaped diadem /
PIETAS AVGVST S C
Matidia as Pietas standing facing, placing her hands on heads of Sabina and Matidia the younger
Sestertius, Rome 112
28,87 g / 36 mm
Cohen 11; BMC Trajan 1088; RIC II 761 (Trajan); CBN Trajan 932; Woytek 730 var.1.; Banti 1

 

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Wow that is nice.

 

Awesome coin

 

It matches a Paduan medal

Here's one from ACsearch:

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2635915

 

If it wasn't sold as a Paduan, you should be entitled to your money back.

 

For compare with a real one

 

It puzzles me that it does match this coin in the Göttingen Coin Cabinet also:

 

It was sold as genuine :-(.

 

evey letters has almost the same line

 

The book "Los Sestercois del Imperio Romano" illustrates five examples of this type. To my eye, they all look much different that the OP example. None have anything like the wide rim. All have the reverse legend clearly split with PIETAS to the left of the figure and all of AVGVSTA to the right, with the figure's head up into the line of the legend. To me, the OP coin looks like a Paduan.

 

I didn't vote because the options are not right. The question should be if it is "genuine" or "fake", not "smoothed and tooled, but genuine" or "cast fake." Fakes can be struck. I'm convinced it is fake, but not certain it is cast.

 

I have tracked down 20 presumably genuine examples now (four in Museums, sixteen in private hands) .

Wide rims do exist, like on this one from the Berlin Museum, which is 37 mm in diameter:


At least one specimen does indeed have the Avgusta´s A to the left:

Others have the Pietas´S right in the middle on top of the figure´s head, like the one Ro illustrated above:


Nevertheless obviously it cannot be that all of the three coins that not only combine these three features, but look 99 % alike (one of them a Paduan and the only clear difference I can make out in the other two the shape of the SC in the Göttingen example and the die crack in mine).
I wrote to Göttingen University and asked them about their opinion and the history of their coin.
I´ll keep you updated...

 

..those nagging doubts..

 

..those nagging doubts..

 

cast fake / it is to perfect for a real one

 

Awww, that sucks ... I hate seeing you score another fake (is it from the same seller as the last one?)

 

iff he paid 250 oke, whe dont know what he has paid, 5000 io would say whye did you

 

No, from yet another respected Auction House. If this happens yet again, I will give up this hobby :-(

Somewhere in the middle, around 1000 USD including fees. I guess that would be a fair price for a tooled but otherwise genuine Matidia...

 

i see to many to Agreements with the medal cast one/ thats all

 

I thank that would be an extremely low price for a genuine coin of that quality. My cursory search suggested to me that $3000 might begin bidding on a genuine one. In my opinion, the reason you got it so low was most people who might want it and could afford it didn't bid, thinking it was a fake.

 

it is cast/ it has the same letters as the cast one