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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RichardT, post: 8163126, member: 100005&quot;]There is no way to be certain from an image alone. However:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. The surfaces or fields really look problematic to me. They look like what a cast coin would exhibit. It certainly doesn&#039;t look hammered (or struck)</p><p>2. The edges look very wrong to me too.</p><p>3. Apparently it was sold by numismatic.888, a seller on Forvm&#039;s NFSL</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like the seller didn&#039;t mention the weight of the coin on his website. Most of the active listings don&#039;t either. To me, that is a sign that he doesn&#039;t specialise in ancients. Nothing wrong with that, just that the relevant expertise may not be there.</p><p><br /></p><p>On balance I really don&#039;t think the coin is genuine.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>You wrote that the coin doesn&#039;t exhibit the characteristics of casts. What are those?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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