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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GregH, post: 2816232, member: 75936&quot;]The green in the reverse pits looks like bronze disease to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Antinous/ Antinoos is top of my want list. Right up there with Zenobia and Romulus Augustus. And I won&#039;t settle for a lead tessera - I want a proper drachm or medallion.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I&#039;m beginning to suspect coins of Antinous are the most tooled/faked coins in all antiquity. Which is (I think) what Smythe was getting at: why spend a lot of money on an Antinous when chances are it&#039;s been tampered with or fake? I&#039;m lucky so far that I&#039;ve been able to leverage the advice of Coin Talk, and found that 100% of my prospective Antinous purchases (so far) are fake or seriously problematic. Even if we can&#039;t find a die match to a known fake right now, or proof of tampering from a previous incarnation in the auction archives - there&#039;s still a lot of doubt. </p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting point - discussions about tooling are almost always in relation to bronzes. Do gold and silver coins get tooled? Gold and silver coins don&#039;t suffer from pitting or corrosion, do they? Can we be more confident generally in the authenticity of good style AR and AV coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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