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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2918044, member: 19463&quot;]You need to be careful with Paduans as well.&nbsp; Original struck fakes from Renaissance days sell well and bring good prices but they are very rare.&nbsp; They were later reproduced by casting making fakes of fakes and even multiple generations&nbsp; of casts losing detail every time.&nbsp; The worst ones are not at all valuable.&nbsp; I&#039;m no expert but would say the Nero is better than the Galba but neither are originals.&nbsp; The one in the link you posted is flagged as a &#039;later cast&#039; and should not have sold so high IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Septimius Severus example is also a later cast and probably worth closer to $50 while a struck original might be $5000.&nbsp; That does not mean you won&#039;t find someone who knows less than you do and will buy them as something they are not.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]705951[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There is an online book on them.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/medalsbygiovanni00lawriala" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/medalsbygiovanni00lawriala" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/medalsbygiovanni00lawriala</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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