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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6123680, member: 110504&quot;]No worries At All.&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t accusing you of that any more than of being into &quot;Jackass&quot; movies (...I was at the next-door apartment, and they had herbal refreshment).&nbsp; But you&#039;re dead on about the reverse motif, with the clasped hands.</p><p>The obverse looks much more like an attempt to imitate some early medieval issue, Frankish or Anglo-Saxon, maybe (in either case) 10th century.&nbsp; Here&#039;s one possible suspect.</p><p><a href="https://www.cgbfr.com/charles-le-simple-robert-et-raoul-denier-au-portrait-ttb,bca_393840,a.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cgbfr.com/charles-le-simple-robert-et-raoul-denier-au-portrait-ttb,bca_393840,a.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cgbfr.com/charles-le-simple-robert-et-raoul-denier-au-portrait-ttb,bca_393840,a.html</a></p><p>...Part of the point being, even for this kind of a fake, this one is setting new records for incompetence.&nbsp; Neither the Carolingians nor the more-or-less contemporary Anglo-Saxons ever imitated the Roman clasped-hands motif, although both of them imitated later imperial issues, especially from the 4th century.&nbsp; (Trivia minute: as you might very well know, the Roman emperors continued the same motif, off and on, from the first century CE into the 3rd.)&nbsp; Whoever &quot;engraved&quot; this didn&#039;t even get that much of their ostensible playbook right.</p><p>...If you go along with the premise that this was even Supposed to be a fake of an early medieval coin, the flan is Way too thick.&nbsp; Wish this was still on the first page, with your pics.&nbsp; But other people here are much better at spotting giveaways on those, more technical levels.&nbsp; You get points for including the side view![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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