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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3589418, member: 85693&quot;]I am conditionally excited about this, in a too-good-to-be-true way.&nbsp; Sometimes I troll through eBay&#039;s &quot;Antiquities&quot; section looking for coins - mostly overpriced crud or fakes, but now and again, I find something.&nbsp; So this came up, $14 for &quot;two ancient coins.&quot;&nbsp; The photos were blurry and showed only the obverse - the seller sent me some more and I saw a scorpion, which led me to Commagene. </p><p><br /></p><p>My question is, is the Commagene real?&nbsp; It is way nicer than most of my bronzes, so I am suspicious.&nbsp; It is 28 mm and weighs 12.47 grams.&nbsp; It&#039;s fabric reminds me of a Ptolemaic bronze - flat on the obverse and somewhat convex on the obverse (as if the planchet was made in a mold).&nbsp; I looked at a bunch of these online - they appear to be fairly abundant.&nbsp; The Forgery Network didn&#039;t show any...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]959002[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]959000[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the whole lot.&nbsp; The other one is a plated Otacilla Severa with IVNO CONSERVAT...it is very lightly plated (and crusty) - by coincidence, this issue is supposedly linked to Philip&#039;s Carpic Campaign Mint, about which I recently re-posted.</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/philip-the-arab-carpic-campaign-mint-ric-51-and-others.318383/#post-3583539" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/philip-the-arab-carpic-campaign-mint-ric-51-and-others.318383/#post-3583539">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/philip-the-arab-carpic-campaign-mint-ric-51-and-others.318383/#post-3583539</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]959001[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.&nbsp; And feel free to share your Commagenes or Mrs. Philip the Arabs, scorpions, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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