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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 2687342, member: 80783&quot;]WinNumis, Luxemburg. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime, I got a response from the nice people at CNG. One of their numismatists will review my coin and get back to me a.s.a.p. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>By now I tend to believe it should be one and the same coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>1) The coins share the same weight so it is very unlikely that one should have been the host for casting the other.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) Modern casts tend to be lighter than the host coin. 23 grams seems perfectly OK to me for a Sestertius of Pertinax.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) I wonder why someone would take a rather worn coin (graded fine by CNG) instead of a more desirable one in a better overall condition, to make casts of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>4) Also if someone wanted to make casts that could pass as the original, a coin with a uniquely shaped flan like mine should be the last thing he would consider to get away with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of this brings me to the conclusion that this is indeed the same coin, apart from the fact that someone obviously has &quot;tampered with it a little&quot; in 2015 or 2016.</p><p><br /></p><p>If this should turn out to be the case, it would nevertheless still be a genuine Pertinax Sestertius and as such:</p><p><br /></p><p>a) a rarity per se and despite the &quot;cleaning&quot;, &quot;repair&quot; or whatever it has endured</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (didn´t most or all ancient bronze coins go through some of that?) still a&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; desirable coin</p><p>b) it is still not ugly at all and I like it</p><p>c) it might be the best Pertinax I will ever be able to afford for my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>So - would´t you keep it if you were me and an able authority classified it as ancient???[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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