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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GregH, post: 2379523, member: 75936&quot;]Some Roman nummi are worth big bucks - up to a few thousand dollars. Well worth forging. And probably easy to forge given the very rough style of this series. How hard could it be to add a Ricimer monogram to a 9mm bronze flan?</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore an Eid Mar attracts likely far more scrutiny than a modest nummus, and so may fake AE4s pass under the radar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately even the big auction houses are selling (I hope unknowingly?) fakes from the late 5th century. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also a problem is the misattribution of common AE4s as rare. Recently I saw what was probably a Honorius attributed as an Avitus AE4 by a major auction house. In fact I&#039;m not sure Avitus AE4s even exist (Raziel Suarez has done some interesting research on this).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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