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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Olisipo, post: 2263928, member: 75543&quot;]You raise good points. Perhaps the case is not as clear-cut as I believed. But I&#039;m still pending towards fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>First of all, I guess the coin <i>could</i> be put on a bezel - but would anyone <i>do </i>so? As Doug says, it looks badly trounced, and believe me, the effect is even worse in hand. Who&#039;d take the effort to put this one in a bezel? Back in ancient times it would be kept for the value of its silver. In modern times, people who mount coins in jewelry value their aspect. All examples I&#039;ve seen of coins in bezels were either reasonably attractive, had some interesting feature - or were forgeries people didn&#039;t care to clip.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Flow marks can show in cast copies. I&#039;m sorry my photos aren&#039;t sharp enough to reveal this, but in this coin flow marks only show up near the border; the inner field is flat or slightly pitted. The reverse has no flow marks at all. Perhaps this could result from ages of wear followed by harsh cleaning, but overall I find it unconvincing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]449714[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Notice the area between 9 and 10 o&#039;clock. The break in the flan <i>does not</i> cross over to the obverse. I don&#039;t see how this could happen if the coin were struck. I&#039;ve also marked two other areas where I&#039;d expect to see cracks, but there&#039;s nothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Last but not least, there&#039;s [USER=42773]@John Anthony[/USER]&#039;s assertion that the style is off. I don&#039;t know the issues from this period well enough to weigh on that, but I&#039;ve already had one collector in another forum say the same. A wrong style would preclude the coin from being genuine - at most it could have been an ancient forgery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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