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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2232511, member: 42634&quot;]thanks for the comments everyone.</p><p><br /></p><p>this was a somewhat risky purchase.&nbsp; i didn&#039;t know the seller and the pics weren&#039;t great.&nbsp; i thought the style looked good.&nbsp; in hand, i was more at ease.&nbsp; it has been struck, so if it is a fake...it&#039;s a very well done struck silver fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>one of the modern struck fakes is pictured here...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.parthia.com/parthia_forgery.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.parthia.com/parthia_forgery.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.parthia.com/parthia_forgery.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>to me, the style is <i>ok</i>...but the fabric looks wrong.&nbsp; mine looks more like a cleaned ancient to my untrained eyes.&nbsp;&nbsp; one of the drawbacks of being relativity new to collecting (4 years this fall) and not specializing in anything and owning only a single parthian coin.... my eyes are very untrained.&nbsp; BobL&#039;s &quot;thumbs up&quot; of the coin was pretty important to me for that reason,&nbsp; i sent the my first pics to him as soon as i got it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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