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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Original Skin Coins, post: 24598196, member: 80261&quot;]Hi all, curious of your opinions on this one. I picked this up a couple months back, either as part of a CNG or Leu bulk denarii lot. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1562619[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There are a few obvious problems with this one. On the obverse, the empress&#039; name is misspelled as FAVSTINI rather than FAVSTINA. It appears the die was engraved like that, rather than part of the &quot;A&quot; wearing off on the die. </p><p><br /></p><p>And then the reverse is not a Diva Faustina reverse at all, but instead the reverse of a standard Antoninus Pius denarius, probably RIC 153: <i>TR POT COS IIII, Pax standing left, holding branch and cornucopiae</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin weighs 2.88g, measures 18.5mm diameter, and appears to have been struck rather than cast (note the double-strike on the brow/nose of the portrait as well as the obverse inscription). </p><p><br /></p><p>I wasn&#039;t able to find any fakes matching this one on the Forum Ancient Coins fakes list, and my Google-fu has come up lacking in finding any similar coin elsewhere online. Any ideas?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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