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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 8366018, member: 74282&quot;]This is why Crawford rejects the type, from RRC page 552 appendix 107. This is the coin from which the (plaster) cast labeled &#039;Forgery, Athens&#039; in the ANS was made:</p><p><br /></p><p>107. The aureus of Brutus with EID·MAR is in my view false, pace H. A. Cahn, Congrès 1953, 213; the formal reasons advanced by Cabn for accepting the piece are without weight and the piece itself invites suspicion; there is a cast of the example published by Cahn in the ANS, labelled &#039;Forgery, Athens&#039;; another example is listed in D. Christianus, Catalogus Numismatum Antiquorum (Copenhagen, n.d.) p. 4, no. 10, in the company of seven other Republican gold coins, all false (information from T.V. Buttrey), yet another is rightly in the BM forgery trays.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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