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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 1871710, member: 44357&quot;]Update: I was told to &quot;save my shekels&quot; on this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Neither side is original and are heavily doctored. The pedigree and fact that it is a genuine Flavian Amphitheater sestertius is worth something but I&#039;d stay away and save my shekels.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I was willing to attribute the &quot;enhanced&quot; look somewhat to poor photography (as the rest of the sale is also quite badly photographed) and accept the fact that most of these have been smoothed/tooled to a degree, but that sounds like enough of a consensus to condemn it.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, acceptable problems will vary from person to person. For example, I would still much prefer it over this example which sold for $50K:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.acsearch.info/images/55/541377.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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