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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2444648, member: 19463&quot;]Perhaps I should mention that there are more people who want a Pertinax than there are Pertinax coins so enterprising businessmen have produced a wide variety of fakes.&nbsp; First is a denarius by Slavey from Bulgaria c.1990.&nbsp; When I bought it ($4) the coin was bright and clean silver.&nbsp; Slavey used old European silver for his fakes so the ones for Pertinax have a bit too much silver in the alloy.&nbsp; Twenty years of being thrown in a box have toned this one unevenly (why is the obverse right not cooperating?) but I have made no effort to speed toning and I did not carry it with pocket change to add &#039;real&#039; wear.&nbsp; Many you see have had this &#039;help&#039;.&nbsp; This is not his only reverse and he was not the only worker making fakes.&nbsp; Some are casts from real coins but this one is struck from original, fake dies.&nbsp; Beware.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]510070[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The sestertius below is probably 150 to 350 years old.&nbsp; The dies were made during the Renaissance period that brought us the Paduans but this one is a later cast.&nbsp; They sell as artworks in their own rite but for prices nowhere near that of genuine DIVVS PERT PIVS PATER coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]510073[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>You might want to buy your Pertinax from someone you trust.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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