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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Meat man, post: 14865689, member: 135271&quot;]Recently I acquired a coin which was sold as &quot;unlisted in RIC&quot;. Upon receiving it I did a close examination and could not find a coin exactly like it listed or referenced anywhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>I posted a <a href="https://www.numisforums.com/topic/2133-mystery-coin-unique/#comment-35627" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisforums.com/topic/2133-mystery-coin-unique/#comment-35627" rel="nofollow">thread</a> on NumisForums about it and received a few helpful responses. Some members thought it was a barbarous imitation, others (myself included) thought it looked a little too good for an imitation.</p><p><br /></p><p>The strongest argument (I think) for the barbarous theory is that the coin&#039;s weight is rather light (official coins average more around the 3g mark, whereas imitations generally average around 2.46g). However, I have a hard time accepting this argument <i>alone</i> as a reason to judge what otherwise, to my eyes, appears to be legitimate official coinage as barbarous. Especially given the time period of debasement and inflation - it would seem at least plausible that even official weights could be more volatile.</p><p><br /></p><p>The discussion sort of petered out without reaching any conclusive consensus so I was hoping that maybe some folks over here could offer their opinions!</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought of sending the coin in to David Sear for his professional judgement but the cost of that would be 3 or 4 times what I paid for the coin, so it&#039;ll be a last-ditch effort.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1532276[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously I would prefer it to be an official coin but either way, I&#039;d like to be reasonably confident about it!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an article that was posted in the other forum which I found interesting:</p><p><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000108391198" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000108391198" rel="nofollow">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000108391198</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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