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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;vlaha, post: 2207963, member: 56398&quot;]I&#039;m currently working on assembling a type set of counterfeit coinage, but I&#039;ve gotten a little bit carried away on the fourees: this is the third out four I&#039;ve picked up in the last few months.&nbsp; The first I&#039;ve already shown, it&#039;s a BD infected specimen.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been planning to start it&#039;s treatment, but haven&#039;t gotten around to it yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]430977[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]430978[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Obv.&nbsp; DIVA AVG FAVSTINA</p><p>Rev.&nbsp; CONSECRATIO</p><p><br /></p><p>What threw me off about this coin were its surfaces; the reverse looked fine, but the central area of the obverse looked like it had been made out out of base metal.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Supposedly this is based off the type RIC 387.&nbsp; However, on Wildwinds the coin depicted as this type had a veiled/draped bust, rather than this hair-net-ish-thingy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure what to think about either of these things.&nbsp; Opinions?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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