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Message:: [QUOTE="Andrew McCabe, post: 3245171, member: 90666"]You asked "Real or Fake"? I think it's clear, between these two options. The letter "R" stands for "Real". I used to own one too, as did AncientJoe. See attached pic. Sadly it lacked the "Real" mark. And was quite worn. Joking aside, relatively speaking the type isn't that rare. There's probably 20 to 50 Roman Republican denarii types that are much rarer than an EID MAR. Not btw including the Cleopatra denarius. Ted Buttrey once outlined his reasoning for thinking the Cleopatra denarius type was struck by over 500 dies which would make it one of the most common denarius types known. It's however dispersed over a great number of non-specialist collections, most which will never be marketed as collections of ancient coins. And it's consistently desirable. So it seems rare. But it isn't. [ATTACH=full]850456[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]