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<p>[QUOTE="Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 8259900, member: 99554"]They have been many debates by experts about the authenticity this exceptional coin . Even M.Crawford refused to include it in his <i>Roman Republican Coinage </i>in 1974. He believed the coin to be a forgery, and was sceptical about the existence of this issue. But in 1989, H.Cahn, in his study on dies of the <b>Eid Mar</b> coins, explained that the style and the epigraphy of this aureus perfectly matched the serie. So if we condamn this coin, we are also doubting all the denarius in this series that share with this specimen certain stylistic and and epigraphic attributes. There is another specimen in the BM since 1825, previously owned by George III and George IV, kings of the United Kingdom; but this one is a forgery…</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1456594[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 8259900, member: 99554"]They have been many debates by experts about the authenticity this exceptional coin . Even M.Crawford refused to include it in his [I]Roman Republican Coinage [/I]in 1974. He believed the coin to be a forgery, and was sceptical about the existence of this issue. But in 1989, H.Cahn, in his study on dies of the [B]Eid Mar[/B] coins, explained that the style and the epigraphy of this aureus perfectly matched the serie. So if we condamn this coin, we are also doubting all the denarius in this series that share with this specimen certain stylistic and and epigraphic attributes. There is another specimen in the BM since 1825, previously owned by George III and George IV, kings of the United Kingdom; but this one is a forgery… [ATTACH=full]1456594[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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