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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lolli, post: 3756548, member: 96900&quot;]The better a coin is preserved the easier is the authentication. Your coin left is not so well preserved and the pictures are not that sharp so it is very difficult to say. And I honestly can not tell <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Your coin left is either authentic or a cast fake. Cast fakes do generally have a casting seam and sprue, or file marks if they were removed. So you can look under magnification for seam and sprue or file markes at the edge (rim). The weight, metal will shrink in casting mould when cooling down which will result in lower weight and size than on the original mother except mould was modified. The weight is ok for your coin if we consider some weight loss due to wear. The details are softer on cast fakes and they have often circular holes from air bubbles or pearls or casting defects if mould was not completely covered with metal. You can check by yourself under magnification. Maybe you want to show the coin to a dealer sepcialized in ancient coins at coin fair etc. or if you have such a dealer nearby visiting him. If you send coins for authentication (Sear, HJB, NGC etc) it will cost money and the money should be in realtion to the value of the coin. Not sure if it makes sense in your case, because only the authenticity of the coin left is not clear the one in middle is without a doubt fake and the one on the right side as far as it is possible to tell from pictures authentic. If the coin on the right side would be really fake it would be the best fake I have seen in my whole life and I have seen really many and many expensive and dangerous ones. To the one on the right side the dies are legit, the fabric is correct (struck), the planchet is correct, the weight is correct, I can not see anything which is not as it would be expected on an authentic coin from this type and not any problem or anything that would speak for a fake, fakes have problems (depending what kind of fake it is) and this coin does not seem to have any of this problems (as far as it is possible to tell based on pictures).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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