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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SeptimusT, post: 3978265, member: 91240&quot;]The flan doesn&#039;t look like the typical cast fakes I&#039;ve seen. While the double edges are weird (and do remind me of Bing&#039;s coin), the roughly clipped sprues which are not really aligned with the image would be quite unusual for a modern fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I don&#039;t know why I didn&#039;t notice the reverse inscription. As far as it being Severus Alexander, that was just my initial instinct since I couldn&#039;t make out the inscription; going back to it, I think it may be Elagabalus. The placement of the reverse inscription is a <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.el.358d" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.el.358d" rel="nofollow">better match</a>, too. For him, it occurs in all bronze denominations, which doesn&#039;t help very much, and the general weirdness of the coin remains.</p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT: There&#039;s also a star in the right field, as with <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.el.360e" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.el.360e" rel="nofollow">this Elagabalus</a> (360e). As I said, still weird... and it being Elagabalus makes me more wary.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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