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Message:: [QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3039567, member: 80804"]This is a "stock" question, but do you have some specific reason to doubt its authenticity? The seller's other items - are any of those more-or-less obviously inauthentic? Perhaps this seller has a less than spotless reputation? etc.If there is no other reason to doubt it, I might not be quite so quick to jump on the "it's a Fake!" bandwagon. Of course, being a common piece, it would be easy enough to pass it up and look for another of the same type, but that also raises the question of why, given such talent in forgery that there is a significant question (which admits the possibility of it being genuine), the creator would have chosen so prosaic of a type - probably one of the lowest value denarii of the 1st century - rather than copying a somewhat more "exciting" type or one that tends to sell for more?However the overarching concern is that you do not feel comfortable enough buying it to do so without asking for the board's opinions. As I said, and you're no doubt aware, it's common enough of a type that it should be very easy to find another, comparable specimen of the same type if its necessary to "fill a hole" or there is some other reason (other than low potential hammer price) you wanted this piece.If it makes you personally uncomfortable, that alone should be reason enough to pass it up.[/QUOTE]