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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 7630917, member: 89514&quot;][USER=101569]@Ricardo123[/USER]&nbsp; </p><p>If two ancient coins are identical in every detail, as I think may well be the case with the BM&#039;s and PeteB&#039;s examples, then we can be sure even without having them in hand that at least one of them must be a cast.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would be interested to hear the opinions of David Sear or NGC, if Pete decides to send his coin to them. But I would not expect that their opinions would &quot;clear the question&quot; as you suppose. Very often it is hard to tell with certainty whether a particular coin is authentic or not; and of course authentication services can make mistakes just like anybody else.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even without having the coin in hand I have learned a lot from the Coin Talk discussion, so think it has been quite worthwhile.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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