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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1432600, member: 19463&quot;]My first thought was that the coin was porous.&nbsp; As is my custom when seeing a doubted coin, I looked at other offerings of the seller just to see who we are dealing with.&nbsp; This seller has a few other ancients but all are late Roman.&nbsp; Most are rather high grade and would be of interest to me but all strike me as just a little off the style I would expect from their types.&nbsp; One or two variant coins from the Magnentius era is not worrysome but when all of the coins are just a bit strange, I start wondering if there is a problem here.&nbsp; I am just beginning to feel a litle comfortable with what is to be expected from Lyon in the mid 4th century and these strike me as too nice and rounded compared to the normal issues or the cartoonish barbarous coins I have seen.&nbsp; I am not saying that I am sure the coins are fakes but I&#039;m not bidding either.&nbsp; That takes us back to the Augustus.&nbsp; The style looks OK.&nbsp; The surfaces looks more like the texture you get from bad cleaning than from casting.&nbsp; I can not rule out from the photo that the coin is modern and treated harshly to make it look &#039;old&#039;.&nbsp; Again, I am not calling the coin fake but, also again, I am not bidding.&nbsp; If these coins were mixed in with a hudred others that struck me as certainly good, I might tend to accept them as something outside my specific education but standing as a group, I am hesitant to get involved.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I would love to see one of those late Romans in hand ((and under a microscope).&nbsp; They are starting at a reasonable price so I would expect them to get a lot of bids if people in the know accept them.&nbsp; It will be interesting to see the results.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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