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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hrefn, post: 7853365, member: 115171&quot;]I have purchased three misattributed coins in the past 12 months, all at auction from top tier companies.&nbsp; Misattribution is not always a good thing.</p><p>The first was an example of this solidus, which was attributed to an uncertain Germanic tribe.[ATTACH=full]1352727[/ATTACH]This picture is from the IBSCC Bulletin on Counterfeits.&nbsp; It appears the Uncertain Germanic Tribe was located in Lebanon in the 1960’s.&nbsp; The auction house responded to my concerns in a most gentlemanly fashion which included a prompt refund.&nbsp; I have seen two other examples for sale in the past year, so caveat emptor.&nbsp;&nbsp; I call your attention to the dot below AVG on the obverse, the idiosyncratic style of the “S” on both the obverse and reverse, the retrograde “N” in CONOB, and the rather masculine style of the face of Constantinopolis.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The next misattribution I have previously shared here.&nbsp; A solidus of Anastasius which was not identified as Ostrogothic.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/recent-cng-auction-win-ostrogothic.381892/#post-7656048" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/recent-cng-auction-win-ostrogothic.381892/#post-7656048">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/recent-cng-auction-win-ostrogothic.381892/#post-7656048</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The last was a rather fairly minor misattribution, but a good story.&nbsp; This aureus, in an auction by Leu:&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1352731[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Incorrectly identified the figure on the reverse as Bonus Eventus, even though it looks distinctly female.&nbsp; Brief investigation revealed the original (not my coin, if it need be said)[ATTACH=full]1352732[/ATTACH]</p><p>“Triton XIX, Lot: 560. Estimate $10000.</p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus Aurelius. </p><p><br /></p><p>As Caesar, AD 139-161. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 6.75 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, AD 148-149. AVRELIVS CAE SAR AVG P II F, bare head right / TR POT III COS II, Fides, draped, standing right, holding two grain ears in lowered right hand and holding basket of fruit on raised left. RIC III 445Aa (Pius); Calicó 1930 (same dies); BMCRE 692 (Pius); Biaggi 874 var. (bust type). EF, lustrous, a few miniscule marks. Portrait struck in high relief.”</p><p><br /></p><p>So the goddess is Fides, not Bonus Eventus.&nbsp; Fides is translated as faith, but in Latin connotes mutual and reciprocal fidelity, as between parties to a contract, husbands and wives, and soldiers and the Republic they serve and protect.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is my good fortune to have an fitting repository for an emblem of Fides.&nbsp; After thirty years she has more than earned it.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1352737[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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