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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1821947, member: 56859&quot;]An interesting albeit corroded, tooled, and overcleaned coin from the recent &quot;TIF&#039;s Folly&quot; mixed lot <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In an old paper envelope, handwritten in pencil:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the coin, and what I think is the correct attribution below.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]299258[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Augustus sestertius</b></p><p><b>moneyer C. Asinius Gallus</b></p><p>struck 16 BC, Rome</p><p>33 mm, 20.9 gm</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; OB CIVIS SERVATOS; wreath (CIVIS within wreath)</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; C ASINIVS C F GALLVS IIIVIR AAAFF around large SC</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; RIC I 370</p><p><br /></p><p>Why do you think the previous owner wrote &quot;NO GOOD&quot; on the envelope?&nbsp; &quot;No good&quot; as in tooled, overcleaned, and corroded?&nbsp; Or &quot;no good&quot; as in fake?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not finding any red flags for fakery on this one.&nbsp; Any opinions?</p><p><br /></p><p>Not knowing what Ob Civis Servatos meant, I searched and found the following information from this book (ebook available online):</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>New Varieties of Gold and Silver Coins, Counterfeit Coins, and Bullion: With Mint Values. 2nd Ed., Rearranged, </b></font></p><p><a href="http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&amp;tbm=bks&amp;q=inauthor:%22Jacob+Reese+Eckfeldt%22" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&amp;tbm=bks&amp;q=inauthor:%22Jacob+Reese+Eckfeldt%22" rel="nofollow">Jacob Reese Eckfeldt</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&amp;tbm=bks&amp;q=inauthor:%22William+Ewing+Du+Bois%22" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&amp;tbm=bks&amp;q=inauthor:%22William+Ewing+Du+Bois%22" rel="nofollow">William Ewing Du Bois</a></p><p>G. P. Putnam, 1851</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]299259[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>So it looks like &quot;ob civis servatos&quot; roughly translates to &quot;preserve the citizens&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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