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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 2759282, member: 80783&quot;]I agree that at least two of the three almost identical coins posted above are Paduans.</p><p>One was sold as such and the one in the Göttingen Coin Cabinet is, according to Davie Sear, definitely a cast as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>All three seem, apart from looking tooled, to be double die matches at least.</p><p>As the Paduan that was sold as such has the exact same flan shape as the Göttingen Coin Gallery piece (including the dent in the top at the obverse), both must be casts from the same source.</p><p>Mine, on the other hand, has a flan crack and therefore, at least in my eyes, could (or should?) be struck and so, at least of these three, would be the most likely candidate to be genuine.</p><p>Maybe, despite being tooled, it was selected for casting because of it´s medallic flan?</p><p>BUT I also noticed that on none of the 23 presumably genuine Sestertii of Matidia I could locate so far the children on the reverse are THAT small.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anybody here have access to MIR? I read that it lists 33 specimen (Banti lists 20). And is there a story of die matches maybe?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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