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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lolli, post: 3183283, member: 96900&quot;]On the reverse are pearls from casting.</p><p>For example near second A of CAESAR.</p><p>Casting seam can be removed or avoided with lost wax.</p><p>Sprue can be removed.</p><p>The style looks fine so the mother must haven been an authentic coin from official dies.</p><p>You can look at the edge if there are file marks and if the edge was manipulated.</p><p>You can look for weight although cast fakes can weight even more if the casting mould is modified (wax or plastic impression can be lightly modified to change flan shape).</p><p>You can look for casting twins or mother with same or similar flan shape, wear, scratches etc. in forgery databases or acsearch / coinarchives</p><p><br /></p><p>This pearls are not die defects or die rust, that would&nbsp; look different and would be present on other coins minted from same dies at same time or later, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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