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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5024239, member: 19463&quot;]I do not have a reference on the matter but I believe that very common fake was originally glued to a paper illustrating a book on the subject of one of its two very different sides.&nbsp; The portrait is copied from Constantine the Great and could illustrate a book on Rome or early Christianity while the reverse is copied from a common variety of 1st century AD Widow&#039;s Mite and would illustrate a book on the Holy Land or New Testament.&nbsp; Since one side or the other was to be glued down, it made no difference that the two were mismatched by 300 years.&nbsp; Perhaps the makers underestimated the number of people who would throw away their advertising paper but peel off the coin which then entered the collections of people who did not know real from impossible.&nbsp;&nbsp; I am not sure when these were made but I believe they are more recent than the other advertising glue downs copying Gela that were used by Readers&#039; Digest fifty years ago.&nbsp; I would enjoy seeing either of these items still attached to their original publication.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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