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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1724550, member: 19463&quot;]I see no reason to be overly suspicious of the authenticity but the photo does not make it obviously good or bad.&nbsp; The easy answer is that the coin was harshly cleaned once having a lot more of those black patches.&nbsp; Certainly it could be a fake but that would require showing it in person to someone who knows more about such things than I do.&nbsp; I agree that a decade in a fume filled environment could make it a lot prettier but could still like to see a photo lighted to have less glare.&nbsp; That does not mean we would be able to be any more certain about the coin.&nbsp; At $45, I would call it a good purchase now that we have an ID.&nbsp; I am hard on coins I can&#039;t ID rather than assuming that they are genuine rarities.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you were to go on a quest for another specimen of the same ruler and date (all the coins I saw in photos were year one), I suspect it would take a while.&nbsp; If the coin is a fake, the maker got everything right as far as I can see.&nbsp; Most fakes would not have a correct style and believable mint/date unless they were copied from a genuine original by casting.&nbsp; This one does not look cast to me.&nbsp; I would not worry about it and suggest you enjoy the coin and the mysteries around it.&nbsp; One that bothers me is how something like this got to a Pawn shop.&nbsp; Did he have a collection, a hoard or was this the only ancient coin?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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