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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2366745, member: 19463&quot;]Fear not.&nbsp; It is not too late but you will have to put in some work to make it look that beat up or should I say &#039;genuine&#039;.&nbsp; This is the Antiquanova replica.&nbsp; It comes in pot metal for $3 and real silver for $18 but the silver ones are marked with a fancy S over the hat so I assume this is the cheap one.&nbsp; I suppose there might be some marked at the bottom where the eBay coin has that damage (conveniently to remove the S???).&nbsp;&nbsp; I suggest you buy a few hundred and bury them somewhere in the UK along with a note explaining that they were buried there by escaping survivors of Brutus&#039; defeated army.&nbsp; I&#039;d do that but no one would believe that they sailed to America before burying the hoard.&nbsp; People can be stupid but we must not push the matter too far. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now here is an unpopular opinion:&nbsp; Most of the Antiquanova replicas (not &#039;fakes since the company makes no claim to their being anything but copies) are bad style (that Brutus portrait is typically awful) but a few of their dies are good enough that you might consider making jewelry out of them.&nbsp; I&#039;d rather you buy them than mounting real coins.&nbsp; They could be fashioned into a chess set or used to play Monopoly or flipped to begin sporting events.&nbsp; Best of all, you could fashion a couple of these into cuff links that would give people on Coin Talk in the next century something to talk about when your great grandchildren found them in you dresser.&nbsp; A serious question: Are any of the known EID MAR denarii known to be ex-jewelry?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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