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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 3195666, member: 44210&quot;]I nearly won an Odoacer of this same exact style from a Savoca eBay auction a couple of years ago. After the auction I consulted a friend who owns a couple of authentic Odoacer nummi and is a longtime collector of late Roman, and he was doubtful about it, specifically the much higher quality style than is usual for this type.</p><p><br /></p><p>Searched for Odoacer nummi on acsearch around the time I found my current example and lo-and-behold, Savoca again offered an Odoacer with this same specific style (as your example and of the one I almost won) in April of this year:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4896294" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4896294" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4896294</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Pretty odd IMO. I can&#039;t say with 100% certainty that yours is fake, but the style alone makes me leery (I hope its real though).</p><p><br /></p><p>But Emporium Hamburg seems to have the fake Odoacer nummi market cornered, at least according to acsearch. The styles and surfaces look so bad on them, and I&#039;ve also seen fake rare nummi of other rulers (such as Anthemius) with the same fabric as these coins. Some operation somewhere has been flooding the market with fake rare late Roman nummi for the past several years. Its definitely disappointing. I also know that, sometimes, authentic nummi of Honorius and other common rulers are fraudulently overstruck with rare ruler&#039;s names/monograms/etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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