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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1708904, member: 19463"]My guess is a tooled 'upgrade' from a completely different reverse. The style of the portrait and the lettering just does not strike me as Roman normal but could have been touched up by someone in the 19th or 20th centuries. Part of me wants to see casting pearls on the reverse but that would seem inconsistent with my opinion that the coin was tooled since you would expect someone tooling a cast to remove the pearls. I don't have to be too specific on why I don't like the coin, I just don't. I'm not in the business of explaining my opinions for pay and would be interesting to see what David Sear would write on a certificate for this coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>One of the great things about being an amateur coin collector is that you do not have to separate all coins into 'real' and 'fake' but only into 'would buy' and 'wouldn't touch'. I'm sure this, if genuine, would not be the first coin I have been mistaken on but my advice to your friend would be to send it to Sear or save the cost of the certificate and put it away until you find a die match from an unquestionable provenance rather like they did when they found that second Domitian II coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>My Dolphin/anchor is a Domitian but they are also common in Titus. </p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac49dom.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac49dom.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac49dom.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1708904, member: 19463"]My guess is a tooled 'upgrade' from a completely different reverse. The style of the portrait and the lettering just does not strike me as Roman normal but could have been touched up by someone in the 19th or 20th centuries. Part of me wants to see casting pearls on the reverse but that would seem inconsistent with my opinion that the coin was tooled since you would expect someone tooling a cast to remove the pearls. I don't have to be too specific on why I don't like the coin, I just don't. I'm not in the business of explaining my opinions for pay and would be interesting to see what David Sear would write on a certificate for this coin. One of the great things about being an amateur coin collector is that you do not have to separate all coins into 'real' and 'fake' but only into 'would buy' and 'wouldn't touch'. I'm sure this, if genuine, would not be the first coin I have been mistaken on but my advice to your friend would be to send it to Sear or save the cost of the certificate and put it away until you find a die match from an unquestionable provenance rather like they did when they found that second Domitian II coin. My Dolphin/anchor is a Domitian but they are also common in Titus. [URL]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac49dom.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
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