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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24863470, member: 26430"]I have nothing to contribute on authenticity, but I'd imagine CNG went to some lengths to verify such a high profile coin, showing it around and using what technology is available. (Of course, some very high profile fakes have slipped past exactly this process in the past -- thinking of their "Cabinet W" from 2012, part of which was seized by the US Federal gov.) Re: Syria, I don't know if you've seen it, but <a href="https://www.academia.edu/16306945/Collecting_Coins_and_the_Conflict_in_Syria" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/16306945/Collecting_Coins_and_the_Conflict_in_Syria" rel="nofollow">Ute Warternberg Kagan's 2015 article on "Collecting Coins and the Conflict in Syria"</a> used coins of Vabalathus and of Zenobia as an index for the flow of "conflict coins" from the region. She didn't mention the Aurelian/Vabalathus coinage, though. Not knowing much about it, I wasn't sure if the double-busted Aurelian/Vabalathus coinage circulated more widely than the Vabalathus-only coinage? Or were they all "usurpation coinage" limited to the Palmyrene region?[/QUOTE]