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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 3003429, member: 83956&quot;]So late last night I was scrolling through eBay and saw a coin that looked mighty familiar. Upon closer scrutiny, I realized why it was familiar. It was my coin, which I purchased last year from a VCoins dealer based in Spain. The eBay seller was also Spanish: <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Denarius-Julius-Caesar-46-47-BC-Venus-Aeneas-Good-Condition-Scarce/323086289587?_trkparms=pageci%3Ab2689356-17d9-11e8-ae37-74dbd180e981%7Cparentrq%3Abdd702eb1610a86676b365dcfff2941a%7Ciid%3A1&amp;_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Denarius-Julius-Caesar-46-47-BC-Venus-Aeneas-Good-Condition-Scarce/323086289587?_trkparms=pageci%3Ab2689356-17d9-11e8-ae37-74dbd180e981%7Cparentrq%3Abdd702eb1610a86676b365dcfff2941a%7Ciid%3A1&amp;_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/Denarius-Julius-Caesar-46-47-BC-Venus-Aeneas-Good-Condition-Scarce/323086289587?_trkparms=pageci:b2689356-17d9-11e8-ae37-74dbd180e981|parentrq:bdd702eb1610a86676b365dcfff2941a|iid:1&amp;_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]743601[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>TOP COIN IS MINE; BOTTOM IS CURRENT EBAY LISTING.</p><p><br /></p><p>At 3.28, my coin was a little light for the type; CNG has several between 3.71-3.98. But I didn&#039;t think anything about the weight of the coin since I had no reason to doubt it initially. Plus, I don&#039;t know enough about weight to know if a .5 gram difference is statistically significant.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am sad and angry to see the eBay listing and doubt my coin. Some of you have purchased fakes before and understand that it comes with the territory. But this is my first significant fake, aside from a comically bad LRB I got in a bulk lot 20 years ago. This coin was also #1 on my Top 10 list from last year. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I understand that Spain is becoming the new Bulgaria when it comes to fakes, but I thought that purchasing from a VCoins dealer serve as a reasonable guard against purchasing a fake. I guess I was wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought about the possibility of a die match accounting for similarities, but the coins exhibit the same off-center reverse strike and, most obviously, the same “E” graffito on the obverse, just in front of Venus’s face.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s one thing that’s really weird. Even the flan seems to be the same. Look at the small crack at the bottom of Aeneas’s right foot on the reverse. Look at the same ding right behind the bottom of the Palladium. Look at the same obverse dips and curves around Venus’s head, 9-11 o’clock. And of course the graffito, which looks fainter in the eBay coin, as if it’s been filed. Do forgeries reproduce such flan elements? And why forge a coin that has such an obvious unique identifier such as the “E” graffito?</p><p><br /></p><p>Help me make sense of what I’m looking at here. Am I right to suspect that my coin is part of a forgery of this type? Is there any way I can still feel good about this coin? How should I proceed?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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