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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 2672057, member: 80783&quot;]This hobby starts to let me down.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whenever I manage to buy some really nice looking bronze, sooner or later doubts about it´s authenticity seem to arise. </p><p><br /></p><p>After I had to send back my beloved Drusus Maior not long ago, now a kind soul pointed out the similarities between my dear Pupienus (seller photo above) and another example (offered in the upcoming Roma Auction), pictured below.</p><p><br /></p><p>Slightly different flan shape, but matching dies and almost identical weak spots on both sides (including die shift on reverse!). </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]595224[/ATTACH] </p><p>Auction Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH, 26.09.2016, Lot 783 </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.coinarchives.com/96b47160a5fb3cfb0389c12c25dda5da/img/roma/013/image00876.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>ROMA Auction, 23.03.2017, Lot 876 (Minimum 2500 GBP)</p><p><br /></p><p>What do you think? Is there any hope or shall I tell the seller right away?</p><p>Oh how I hate this...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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