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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 3239498, member: 42634&quot;]I picked up a couple of fake coins this year, I&#039;ve posted them several times so I&#039;ll give them a rest.&nbsp; Both were ebay coins with poor pictures, so I was well aware of the risk they could be fake.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Here is the first coin I posted here almost 6 years ago!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1241.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fgg513%2Fchrsmat71%2F102_2469.jpg&amp;hash=45a7000885ece4fcf6c1440c3be61e7f" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]847692[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This was in a lot of 20 or so uncleaned coins, the rest were LRB slugs.&nbsp; This one was prominently displayed on top of the pile, the bait worked....I got the lot!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I didn&#039;t end up paying any more for that lot than any other one really, and like most poor uncleaned lot coins, almost all the coins were slugs anyway.&nbsp; I still have this for a conversation piece at least, maybe it was the best thing in the lot after all!&nbsp; LOL! </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, it is an&nbsp; fantasy piece or some type of tourist coin in the (obverse) style of Byzantine anonymous follis.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never seen anything that resemble this reverse, so I don&#039;t know if the maker was really trying to fool anyone.&nbsp; It depicts a nimbate figure (Christ I think) and an emperor flanking a lop sided altar type thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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