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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3239718, member: 85693&quot;]A very useful thread.&nbsp; In the course of bargain-hunting, I&#039;ve accumulated some fakes, some of which I have shared elsewhere.&nbsp; Here, for the first time, is my prettiest fake, a denarius of Julia Domna.</p><p><br /></p><p>At first glance, I thought it was genuine, a rather handsomely-toned example of a fairly common type.&nbsp; In hand there was something too good to be true about it - then when I weighed it, it was 4 grams, too heavy for one of these.&nbsp; When I checked the Forgery Network, there it was, more than once.&nbsp; Fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are things about this one that makes it dangerous to a low-grade collector like me - the way the reverse is off-center with some of the lettering missing, the semi-mushy IVLIA on the obverse, the ovalish flan - rather in keeping with genuine Severan denarii.&nbsp;&nbsp; Doug or some of the other Severan experts could probably find other things wrong with it; I&#039;d be interested to hear their evaluation. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]847799[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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