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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2280350, member: 19463&quot;]Did no one notice that the description on the sale was for a Spes reverse not the one shown in the photo?&nbsp; The photo shows what I have always heard called an &#039;aftercast&#039; meaning the coin is not an original Paduan but a copy of one.&nbsp; These vary fom early aftercasts that are almost good looking.&nbsp; This may be a not bad relatively early one but It is in no danger of being mistaken for a struck original.</p><p><br /></p><p>I regret to note that the price is not all that much compared to some of the things we see offered and/or sold these days.&nbsp; Maybe we are to the place that people really don&#039;t care if their baubles are real any more than they did in the time that Paduans were created to supply demand for things that can not be had.&nbsp; I have a couple Septimius Severus aftercast fakes of lower value and with no provenance.&nbsp; Of course I didn&#039;t pay anywhere near this one either.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]455625[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]455626[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Not a Paduan (not in the catalog of the) is this Pertinax sestertius.&nbsp; It is not too recent and not too likely to be something I&#039;ll be replacing with a real one either.&nbsp; It cost about the same as some LRB&#039;s I&#039;ve seen.&nbsp; One could have a nice collection of hundreds of 19th century or earlier fakes but demand is getting to the point that it would not be cheap.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]455633[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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