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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 7367005, member: 84744"]The problem with this suggestion is that the obverse and reverse are such obviously different styles, the obverse being a good quality Rome mint Caracalla portrait, with the reverse being a sketchy Laodicea Sep Sev. It's hard to explain why, if the forgers were competent to produce such an excellent obverse die, they opted for such inferior work on the reverse. Ocat's coin isn't like that. Also note that Ocat's coin has an obverse appropriate to the reverse, i.e. under Sep Sev so AVGG is right.</p><p><br /></p><p>We might suspect that the Laodicea mint - or an unofficial mint - restruck the reverse of a Rome mint coin (which would be cool & very unusual!), but that's impossible, since the Sep Sev Laodicea reverse is from a number of years <i>earlier</i> than the obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wouldn't propose the converse, because there's no evidence of an overstrike on the obverse. But there are maybe some indications on the reverse?</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't think the corrosion means much either way... it's easy to produce corrosion on silver using acid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 7367005, member: 84744"]The problem with this suggestion is that the obverse and reverse are such obviously different styles, the obverse being a good quality Rome mint Caracalla portrait, with the reverse being a sketchy Laodicea Sep Sev. It's hard to explain why, if the forgers were competent to produce such an excellent obverse die, they opted for such inferior work on the reverse. Ocat's coin isn't like that. Also note that Ocat's coin has an obverse appropriate to the reverse, i.e. under Sep Sev so AVGG is right. We might suspect that the Laodicea mint - or an unofficial mint - restruck the reverse of a Rome mint coin (which would be cool & very unusual!), but that's impossible, since the Sep Sev Laodicea reverse is from a number of years [I]earlier[/I] than the obverse. I wouldn't propose the converse, because there's no evidence of an overstrike on the obverse. But there are maybe some indications on the reverse? I don't think the corrosion means much either way... it's easy to produce corrosion on silver using acid.[/QUOTE]
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