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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 26562815, member: 91820&quot;]Thanks to all for the comments - the inscription is Nicea - but I cannot find anything from Nicea that looks remotely like this.&nbsp; The group of coins cost about $150 - this was one of about six.&nbsp; I cannot believe that a European auction company like Numismatik Naumann would sell a coin of Julius Caesar and Augustus in this condition even from a provincial mint as part of a group lot.&nbsp; If we accept that this is genuine what would any coin with portraits of Julius Caesar and Augustus that look like this go for?&nbsp; Quite a bit is my guess even if it is provincial. </p><p><br /></p><p>I learned long ago that European auction houses generally do a good job of weeding out individual valuable coins in group lots - the one exception a year ago I did find a very rare small bronze coin from an Italian city in a group lot - that one coin more than paid for a group - but that was once in two decades.&nbsp; And it was an oddity - an arm holding a knife - I forget the city - took quite awhile to ID it.&nbsp; Someone from the city in Italy purchased it and boy was he really happy since the coin is extremely rare - but not in my collecting interest. I&#039;ll look it up and post the name of the city.&nbsp; Actually I just found a coin of Severus II in one of the NN group lots - condition, not so good. But it is only the second coin of his I have come across in 26 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nevertheless I would love to know more about the coin I posted.&nbsp; Early in my collecting ancients, I helped sell a friend&#039;s collection of about 300 coins on ebay - he had inherited it from his uncle who allegedly brought the coins home from WW2.&nbsp; The collection included some realistic looking fakes.&nbsp; The answer from experienced collectors and sellers was that &quot;that coin could not have been struck in antiquity.&quot; I feel the same way about this coin - it looks genuine, although would a provincial mint use thin lettering that was used in Rome and that is inconsistent with the other Nicean coin struck for Julius Caesar?&nbsp; Also the portrait style is of the Rome mint but the other coin of Julius Caesar that we know was struck in Nicea looks nothing like this.&nbsp; Unless I am wrong about the attribution but the lettering - I think NIKE etc. is of Nicea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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