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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24699711, member: 26430"]There's really no such thing as condition being "too good to be genuine." But I don't think anyone can confidently determine authenticity based only on these photos (unless someone recognizes a match to a known fake). <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Caracalla+denarius+jupiter+%22standing+r%22&category=1-2&lot=&date_from=&date_to=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Caracalla+denarius+jupiter+%22standing+r%22&category=1-2&lot=&date_from=&date_to=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=2" rel="nofollow">You can also compare to some genuine examples of the same type</a>. Sometimes more context helps. (E.g., was it bought from a specific auction, at a tourist site in Turkey, etc.) In almost every case, where they've been is underground. Some have been above ground for longer -- that is, someone dug them up earlier, whether by chance or intentionally (e.g. with a metal detector). There are coins documented to have been in collections for c. 500 years, but anything beyond a few decades is the exception. The majority of coins appearing at auction (especially budget auctions) have been found much more recently with metal detectors. Cleaned. Dispersed, consigned, and auctioned. Then off to CoinTalk posts.[/QUOTE]