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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 24575305, member: 128351"]The first coin is obviously an imitation, that's why I considered it fake. It imitates the aureus RIC III Marcus Aurelius 549, but the portrait is not Lucius Verus (or a very bad imitation) and the blundered legend was engraved by a celator who did not know Latin. </p><p><br /></p><p>The question is : is it really gold? what is the weight? A very, very hi-res and sharp photo would be needed to see if there are no traces of a flattened undertype on the obverse. If this coin was ancient, it could be an Indian imitation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 24575305, member: 128351"]The first coin is obviously an imitation, that's why I considered it fake. It imitates the aureus RIC III Marcus Aurelius 549, but the portrait is not Lucius Verus (or a very bad imitation) and the blundered legend was engraved by a celator who did not know Latin. The question is : is it really gold? what is the weight? A very, very hi-res and sharp photo would be needed to see if there are no traces of a flattened undertype on the obverse. If this coin was ancient, it could be an Indian imitation.[/QUOTE]
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